by jerfelix on 2/23/12, 5:37 PM with 5 comments
by jerfelix on 2/23/12, 5:41 PM
I decided to cobble something together that permits anonymous texting. It's certainly not perfect, but I thought it was worth showing off to the HN crowd.
$35 for a domain name (sigh, I used godaddy for a Southern Georgia .gs domain; namecheap couldn't help me. Sorry guys). An old server, ubuntu Server edition, Python, Postfix, Sqlite, and little bit of code, a free blogger "website", and it all pretty much works.
What do you think?
PS I'm happy to post a follow-up with all the gory details.
by philiphodgen on 2/23/12, 5:49 PM
2. http://txt.gs doesn't resolve.
3. There have been times I wanted to send text messages without exposing my phone number. Benign reasons. This could be a good solution for me. (I carry two phones and want to text someone from the "other" phone which of course I don't have with me and I don't want that person to know the phone number of the phone I have with me.) (So when I say "I carry two phones" I of course mean I constantly forget to carry two phones.)