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jps

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:39:03 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:15:18 -0700, jps wrote:

These days nothing ever really goes away and virtually anyone with a
little tech savvy can see it. The other difference is these days there
are search engines powerful enough to find it in the clutter.

I don't know if text messages are saved by anyone other than users.
Can't imagine the phone companies want to be responsible for storing
the millions of messages per second going between teens.

It'd be interesting to know.

I imagine there is a certain amount of latency in the system so all
the messages are there for a while but I am sure if the government
wants to trap your phone they can have everything.. When you think of
it, text is so small in the grand scheme of saving data, keeping every
byte sent for a year is not really as huge a database as you would
think. I have a terabyte on my file server.

Kids produce a terabyte of data in about 20 seconds. Have you
witnessed this? I watched a college student, serious scholar rip out
10 text messages in 30 seconds. Fingers flying. That x % of kids
with text enabled phones (large majoirty of those with phones) and
you've got a bucketload of data going back and forth, along with all
the instructions necessary to route it to the right phone.

When I look at how many messages each of my kids sends and receives in
a month, it's astounding. Thousands.

I expect you're right in that most data is preserved for some period
and, if you're being tapped they can save everything. But I doubt
that most text messaging is stored.

Like I said, it'd be good to know.