MobileCrunch posted an article recently about a company that provides a widget for users to post in a MySpace profile. This widget allows visitors to send a text message to the user from the web, without incurring a fee on the sender's end. Oliver at MobileCrunch, along with many of his commentators, pointed out several security flaws in the service from this company. These issues relate to both the person sending and receiving the SMS message.
As you may know by now, jangl is going to be offering a service that bridges a gap between the online modality of communicating to the offline (read phone) modality. In doing so, one might expect a widget approach as one piece of functionality. In our implementation and others we have planned, we have absolutely built in ways to keep both the sender and receiver of our services secure, private, and with strong abilities to evade abuse. Stay tuned for more.
-MC
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