Tiger Woods Really Could Have Used TigerText

By Zach Dionne Posted Mar 2nd 2010 01:43PM

An iPhone application called TigerText lets users delete embarrassing (or incriminating) text messages after they've been sent. But wait, wait, wait -- it's not a reference to a certain philandering golfer? Seriously?

"Tigers are notoriously difficult animals to track. This is not about people trying to cheat," Jeffrey Evans, the founder of TigerText developer X Sigma Partners, told AFP. "If you send a private text message, it should stay private."

TigerText recipients get a notification from the iPhone application prompting them to install the free app and read their message. TigerTexts are never stored on the recipient's iPhone, and can be set to vanish almost instantly or after a specified time. The messages are also copy-proof and can't be forwarded.

Evans insists the app is geared for general privacy, not to defend promiscuity or illegal activities. Time reported:

Evans points out that the European Union ruled in 2006 that phone and Internet providers were required to keep all cell-phone and e-mail data for a certain period of time. "That just seems wrong and an invasion of privacy," he says. "We have not caught on to the implications of all these conversations being kept for so long." While he acknowledges that the app might also be a boon to teens who are in the habit of sexting, drunk texting or "running off at the thumb," he thinks lawyers and their clients and business executives involved in complicated deals will be even more interested.

Like it or not, Evans' nifty software could have helped Tiger Woods as mistress after mistress popped up with explicit text message chains and incriminating phone records.

Tags: apps, iphone, tiger woods, tiger woods affair

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Tuesday 02 March

By kisha

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It doesnt matter what he used he can use whatever he wanted its just a crime shame a bunch of wack heffas messed his life up cause when you think about it everybody else like senators,n pastors or whoever else doing the same thing they just didnt get into it with some money hungry heffas that blasted all over the place cause im pretty sure his wife may have had a run in with another man we just dont know it oh yeah thats right its none of our business.

Wednesday 03 March

By florence

it is really a shame that Tiger Woods had an intimate relationship with an Airhead. All of these women who follow celebs. , then are so eager to give information should be seen for what they really are...cheap broads, looking for some type of recognition. It's a shame he needed outside women though.

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