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from: Hrvoje Mesing
date: 2005-04-12 19:30:40
subject: Re: text messaging security question

From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:b6hl511phvhpciss2vc58f5uldflriom08{at}4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is there any security risk in the following:
>
> 1.  We send batches of email messages intended for delivery to
> delinquent collection customers to a third-party provider.  Each email
> message has the cellphone number of the intended recipient in the "to"
> field.
>
> 2.  The third-party provider sends each message to the indicated
> cellphone number.
>
> I guess the third-party provider is OK as far as privacy rules because
> they are helping us collect, but is there any way OTHER PEOPLE could
> intercept the messages between the third party and the recipients?


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We are using similar thing, but ... We send E-Mails with data to Provider
which then relays them to cellphones. Every E-Mail has it's own account
which is bound to its phone number.


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M.

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