iPhone App helps Cheaters hide Affairs

An iPhone app launched the last week in February has the ability to help cheaters hide their dirty deeds.

How does it work?

Users are able to set a time limit on how long a text they send can hang around after it has been read. When that time’s been exceeded, the message disappears from the recipient’s phone, the sender’s phone and any servers.  The test message can’t be forwarded or  stored anywhere, either.

I should also point out the name of this iPhone app is TigerText. No, I’m not kidding….although I wish I were. (The company swears the name was already decided before the Tiger Woods sex scandal, and they decided just to keep it anyhow)

Basically, it works like this — if a woman sends her secret boyfriend a message via TigerText, her boy toy will be prompted to install the app. When he installs it, he can read the message, but can’t keep it. In fact the message is never actually sent to his phone — it’s stored on Tiger Text’s servers.

After the timespan that the woman specified has elapsed — anywhere from one minute to five days — the message just disappears.

This next one sounds a little ‘Mission Impossible’ to me, but apparently there’s even a “Delete on Read” setting, which counts down from 60 after it’s opened, and erases the text at zero.

For those of you who are truly Fidelity Challenged, the “Delete History” option also wipes any evidence of a given phone call. No residual suspicious numbers, taking away the chance of getting snagged when your significant other goes through your phone while you’re in the shower.

The Founder’s theory is “People text like they talk, and some of the things they say, taken out of context, can come back to haunt them.”

While he admits the app might also be a popular with teens who in the habit of sexting, drunk-texting, or “running off at the thumb,” he thinks lawyers and their clients, or business executives involved in a private deal will be more interested.

I agree with the founder, although I also think it’ll also get used by people living in an Ethical-free Zone looking for one more way to cover their tracks.

What do you think of this iPhone app, and how do you think it’ll be used?