Sprint text tracking ??

[NeroDan]

Originally Posted by lionedas

Hey guys

Kinda of a strange question but my Buddy's wife want his password to his sprint online account, she accused him of deleting to hide text msg's, so she thinks she can go online in to his account and view past msg's.

Is this possible, or is she blowing smoke up his XXX, I cant find anything online where someone could see whom you text, and be able to read the text you sent them, or received a month ago!

Obviously no one without a court order would touch them...interesting article I read a few years ago.

http://gizmodo.com/386760/how-to-cov...message-tracks

[quick99si]

Make sure you buddy's phone doesn't have this installed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527423

[captblaze]

before sprint changed to sms you could access text messages through your online account, but that was years ago. tell your bud he should (never say never) be safe on that front. although never take for granted a woman scorned!!!

[inflewence]

Originally Posted by CTEngel85

Actually most carriers can pull up copies of sent texts... How far back they go, I have no idea, but in order to get the copies, one must provide the carrier with a subpoena from court.

-Chris

Basically, my girl is a lawyer and she has seen a couple months worth pulled. I hope she isn't that gung ho, because like Chris said she needs a subpoena.

[gTen]

I think by government standard its like 2 years or something..but yes you need a court order to get it and for law enforcement purposes.

As for encrypting text messages..not really gonna work..here is why..if you use an encryption that is signed, the government can call up the signer and get it decrypted.

The only safe way is to use your own encryption for sending the message and the person on the other end must have your key to do the decryption. Not to mention you'll have to update your key every now and then because it can be compromised if used often enough.

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Now as for his wife..he should just confront her directly..for all you know she is listening to "cheating" stories from her friends and just feels insecure..or maybe she feels like she is lacking attention..the longer he prolongs it the worse its gonna get...

[jparks29]

Originally Posted by Kliptik

It's illegal for any carrier to keep copies of the text messages sent/received through their service.

The closest your gonna be able to get is a call (not text) history to numbers that called/were called by the phone.

LOL.

What makes you think that?

Having worked for 2 major telco's, and aware of the various divisions responsible for subpoenas, warrants, and warrantless surveillance, I can assure you that EVERY bit of data you send, every text message, every email, every phone call, etc CAN be retrieved within a certain time frame. The only exception to that is when end to end encryption is used, Ie the device encrypts the data, the encrypted data is then sent across the network to the other end device where it is decrypted.

Telcos have the ability, at the flip of a virtual switch, to transmit your location within about 30 ft, enable the microphone on your device, and transmit audio, without your knowledge.

Technology is a double edged sword.

[PPCFreak]

another thing to look out for:::::MyPhone service.

If you have MyPhone service and back it up regularly and have SMS/Text checked, it will backup the devices Txt messages to Microsoft Live account.

While its a nice service, it can be a pain in the a$$ if you know what I mean.....

[clueless25]

LOL. I know there are plenty of insecure women out there, but im on the other end... reason ive never married. If you cant trust me.. wtf makes you think i'd trust you?

[CTEngel85]

Originally Posted by jparks29

LOL.

What makes you think that?

Having worked for 2 major telco's, and aware of the various divisions responsible for subpoenas, warrants, and warrantless surveillance, I can assure you that EVERY bit of data you send, every text message, every email, every phone call, etc CAN be retrieved within a certain time frame. The only exception to that is when end to end encryption is used, Ie the device encrypts the data, the encrypted data is then sent across the network to the other end device where it is decrypted.

Telcos have the ability, at the flip of a virtual switch, to transmit your location within about 30 ft, enable the microphone on your device, and transmit audio, without your knowledge.

Technology is a double edged sword.

Wow, not that I have anything to worry about personally, but that's a scary thought. I guess you just can't ever be too cautious about who's listening, right? I'm not a legal-buff, but wouldn't this constitute invasion of privacy? lol Anyway, not to get off track, but I think the question has been thoroughly answered. And the myPhone service is a good point, too. I haven't checked my myPhone account online, yet, but I do believe it does record/backup all text messages as well.

-Chris

[Kliptik]

Originally Posted by jparks29

LOL.

What makes you think that?

Having worked for 2 major telco's, and aware of the various divisions responsible for subpoenas, warrants, and warrantless surveillance, I can assure you that EVERY bit of data you send, every text message, every email, every phone call, etc CAN be retrieved within a certain time frame. The only exception to that is when end to end encryption is used, Ie the device encrypts the data, the encrypted data is then sent across the network to the other end device where it is decrypted.

Telcos have the ability, at the flip of a virtual switch, to transmit your location within about 30 ft, enable the microphone on your device, and transmit audio, without your knowledge.

Technology is a double edged sword.

Indeed it is... But I was just basing it off the fact that a little over a year ago, I had someone text me their phone number, and I accidentally deleted it before saving it. So I hit up VZW to see if they had any record of texts, even just the number it came from so I could get the number back. The rep didn;t know so she sent me to a manager. The manager then proceeded to inform me that it was illegal for them to keep copies of text messages, and the closest I could get would be phone records.

Apparently, he didn't know jack...

And as far as "encrypting" texts via a custom key, is there an app for that? (<--- wow that felt very iPhone-ish) Not really sure how big of a market there is for that. more jsut wondering out of curiousity.