[guardian-dev] idea for private SMS on wifi-only devices

Daniel McCarney daniel at binaryparadox.net
Thu Sep 19 12:17:29 EDT 2013


I'm not sure Google Voice accounts are universally available. Last I checked you
had to be an American customer. It certainly wasn't available in Canada :'(

- Daniel

On 09/19, Hans of Guardian wrote:
> 
> So Koush made this Voice+ app which makes Google Voice SMS service act as a generic SMS transport so you can use any SMS app with Google Voice.  Google Voice can be used purely via the internet.  So if we make it possible to use Koush's Voice+ over tor, then it should be possible to use SMS without being tracked since it can be used on Wifi-only devices.
> 
> Anyone seeing any holes in my logic?  I'm wondering whether its worth it to put some time into this.
> 
> .hc
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