Yesterday I wrote about a program called Rexspy which allows a phone to be used as a bugging device and which plunders through your SMS messages. This threw up a question and answered another quite interesting one.

Are there ways of protecting oneself against the type of intrusion of Rexspy? And how can you make sure that not only Rexspy but others cannot read your SMS text messages. Thankfully there is an uncomplicated way of hiding one's SMS text messages not only from Big Brother, but also from partners. I don't want to introduce tools that make adultery easier, but Kryptext is it ;-)

You can get Kryptext from Handango. Here's how it works. Whenever your secret lover sends a message to you the SMS is displayed as nonsensical text in your mobile phone's inbox. Your long suffering and therefore suspiscious partner naturally assumes that you are unfaithful and checks your message whilst you're in the bath but can't read it.

The link to Kryptext on the mobile phone portal Handango is here
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=4&N=7%2095636&productId=141685&R=141685