How Secure Are Your Text Messages?


Today SOHH reports that much of yesterday's evidence came from text messages sent to and from Irv's cell phone.

[Read the text messages for yourself.]

OK, everyone- pause for a second. What type of text messages do you have on your cell right now? Sweet notes to your girl? Reckless chatter with your boys? Even sweeter notes to that other girl?

More than email, we treat text messages as a private place where we can share intimate thoughts with friends. However, as this Murder Inc. trial is showing, your texts can become very public if the Feds ever investigate you.

The texts in question to/from Irv were sent 5 years ago, yet the Law was still able to subpoena the records from the phone company. Let this be a lesson to all of us- keep your sensitive business off your cell phone!

Posted by SOHH Hashim at November 22, 2005 04:59 PM

Comments

This sh*t is wacked good thing my girl can get none of my text to my other ho's cause id be in deep sh*t.....

Posted by: BE Soldier at November 22, 2005 05:26 PM

50 bent is king of rats he pussy this niggas movie is dumb as hell fuck 50

Posted by: edawg at November 22, 2005 06:18 PM

Ever since the 2003 signing of the Patriot Act that 90% of America supports, they can do what the hell they want. Warrantless Searches, frequent pat-downs and stops, internet, telephone conversations. But still the prosecution does not have sufficient evidence to make a strong case.

Posted by: devil son at November 22, 2005 06:33 PM

Here we goa again with 50, man the man is cool i like him and all but some of you niggas are on his jock 247. i thought this blog was about text messages in your phones right know.

Posted by: BE Soldier at November 22, 2005 06:38 PM

I second that........

come up with something good for a change local artist, new cats trying to come up in the rap game.

or something man leave all them other muther f*ckers ........

Posted by: BE Soldier at November 22, 2005 07:08 PM

FUNNY HOW SOME PEOPLE CAN TURN ANYTHING TO A 50 CENT BLOG......DAMN, GET A LIFE. AS FAR AS THE TEXT MSGS GO, THE GOVM'T CAN ACCESS ANYTHING WE DO FROM WHAT WE WATCH, TO WHAT STATIONS WE LISTEN TO, TO TAPPING INTO TEXT MESSAGES.

Posted by: RAYMAC at November 22, 2005 07:26 PM

Of course they can get your text msgs. They don't magically float from one phone to the next. (well they actually do and its pretty cool, but they're still stored SOMEwhere) You call yourself Murder Inc and the feds will watch you too. Or call yourself the Snowman wit the yams at yo auntie house and bet the Gubment ain't keepin up with you and yo aunties email and text messages. Most new phones got the GPS tracking in em now too, so you can be 'found' in an 'emergency.'

Man, plus the Gubment can fkin check what books you check out at the library, not that these dumb a$$ kids out here go the the library anymore. They can't read but they can shake their Laffy Taffies.

Damn what were we talkin about again? Oh yeah, the government is watchin!

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Posted by: Big Brother at November 22, 2005 09:01 PM

To answer the question:
OBVIOUSLY NOT THAT FUCKING SECURE!

P.S. "do you think up this shit on your own or do you have a team of monkeys working around the clock" usualsuspects

Posted by: 304kid at November 22, 2005 09:17 PM

ONE QUESTION HOW CAN SO MANY PEOPLE AGREE WITH SOMETHING THAT IS THE FIRST STEP IN TAKING OUR CIVAL LIBERTIES AWAY?
THIS IS VERY RELEVENT TO HIP HOP BECAUSE THE POEPLE WHO AGREE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT OWN THE LABELS. THE SAME PEOPLE WHO DONATE FOR CAMPAIGNS TO THE SAME PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT UP THE IDEA. ITS FUNNY HOW THE LABELS ONLY WANT TO PROMOTE ARTISTS WHO ONLY TALK ABOUT ICE, RIMS, AND CANDY PAINT. WHY, BECAUSE THEY WOULD RATHER US FOCUS ON GETTING MONEY AND SHOWING IT OFF THAN TALKING ABOUT THE WRONGS IN SOCIETY. HIP HOP STARTED AS A VOICE FOR THE POOR AND UNFORTUNATE AND IS NOW A DISTRACTION FROM THE REALITYS OF OUR LIVES. WITHOUT TRUE HIP HOP MUSIC NOT INFLUENCED BY CORPORATIONS RUN BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE POLITICIONS WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN INVADE OUR PRIVACY AND GET AWAY WITH MURDER. AND KILLING IN WAR IS STILL MURDER.

Posted by: SHA-ELEMENTAL at November 22, 2005 09:56 PM

preach on Sha... Hip Hop used to be a voice for the people to talk on the iLLs of society, now that voice can't wait til you sees his dick. It is even more fukked up and cutthroat now that black rich are getting richer, and the black poor are trying to live like a rap video. Damn corporations, ruining everything. Speakin of videos, what the fukk happened to videos? They used to be expressions of art. Now whoever got the biggest a$$ got the hottest video. I still be watchin, but I'm just sayin... there is no balance. The kids is on a platinum diet but ain't gettin no brain food.

Man what were we talkin about again? Oh yeah, the gubment is watchin!

Posted by: Lump aka Big Brother at November 22, 2005 10:08 PM

its murdaaaaaa...ja,black,cadilac,irv,supreme they gangsta dont forget even shyne be yellin murda in jail fo real, and dont forget bout nas its murda.
forget fifty and goof unit,tony mayo is poonani...they snitch..remember (order of pertection against irving lorenzo and jeffry atkins from "curits jackson" thats 50 yall aka five O aka im tellin.

its murda end of story.

Posted by: Murdera at November 22, 2005 11:09 PM

MURDERA.....UR A CLOWN.UR 1 OF THOSE DUMBASS NIGGERS THEM ALPHABET BOYS B LOOKIN 4........GANGSTERS MOVE IN SILENCE........M.inc. is tellin on themselves,time will tell.....ONE

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Posted by: pro at November 23, 2005 02:20 AM

Dam Sha Elemental You that nigga, thats the same shit i been tryin to tell these lil dumb ass niggas, they blindin us with that paper chase and the dreams of iced out rollies and naviagtions in the whips, hell they just givin out navis now think about it you need gps for navi and thats a esay ass way to track a muthafuckas where abouts and then show and prove in court where a nigga been travelin,''

THIS AINT A CONSPIRACY THEROY THE EYE IN THE SKY IS WATCHIN-RZA

Posted by: NAPALARGE at November 23, 2005 03:17 AM

only wiggers love G-unit.
Real niggas got Murder Inc,'s back like me.
New Murder inc. team>>>>>>>>>Gone-Unit

Hussein Fatal
Maino
Harry-O
Young Newz

R.I.P. Gone-unit hahahahga.(don't get mad white people)

go away
I wasn't fan of Murder Inc. until they started to release ill sh....on mixtapes and albums.

Posted by: Asiasiasia at November 23, 2005 04:32 AM

come on, hackers can get your text messages, why the hell can't the government! and why is this turning into a G-Unit vs the Inc. blog , I love both labels because they started from nothing and became very sucessful. We (blacks) never have each other backs, we need to be more like jews and support all our nigg@s making it big.

Posted by: hotboyz at November 23, 2005 12:57 PM

DAMMNNN..
YESTERDAY I WROTE A COMMENT SAYIN, HOW SAFE ARE OUR COMMENTS? CUZ 'SOHH' ALWAYS ERASES OUR COMMENTS IF THEY DONT LIKE IT.. MEANWHILE THEY ONLY GIVE US WACK TOPICS, AND ARE SURPRISED WHEN PPL START TALKING SHIT, LIKE THEY DIDNT SEE IT COMIN....
AND HAHAHAHA SOME PUSSY ERASED MY COMMENT.... I GUESS HE AGREED TO MY COMMENT AND FELT THAT HIS JOB WAS BEING THREATENED CUZ HE CANT COME UP WITH A DECENT BLOG.

Posted by: SOHH BORING at November 23, 2005 01:06 PM

some of you muthers of fffrrrssss need to shut the fuck murda this and murtha that g-unit this and g-unit that, if you sons of bitches have not pulled a triger and of loaded hallow points on anyone, dont talk cause you dont know jack, youll babling back and forth acting hard and shit. shut the fuck up and go get some street cred or something.
I for one have not pulled the trigger, and I dont think ill ever will unless my family gets fuck with then for reals its war can't fuck with family.


so fuck the govm. fuck inc fuck unit damit, labels need to put out music and leave the gansta shit for the real niggas in the streets..............

Posted by: BE Soldier at November 23, 2005 02:46 PM

y0 Juanque meet me at the spot!

at the spot sign language the biz. if yer a crazy ass you may wanna take the battery out of your cell phone so they can't GSM your ass.

Posted by: David at November 23, 2005 02:59 PM

The Patriot act is almost as un-american as the President is.

Posted by: Max-A-Million at November 23, 2005 04:28 PM

I just wanted to thank SOHH Boring for confirming my suspicions. I noticed if people post intelligent arguments or comments, then they shut the blog down????? Suspect!

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Posted by: Ike at November 23, 2005 05:24 PM

THIS JUST IN.....
THE MURDER INC TRIAL HAS JUST ENDED DAY 4. EVERYTHING IS GOING IN THE LORENZO BROS. WAY. ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THEY ARE FOUND NOT GUILTY AND BACK IN BUSINESS... FREE SHYNE

Posted by: THE_INC_2006 at November 23, 2005 05:35 PM

THIS SITE SUCKS AND FROM THIS DAY ON I WILL ONLY WASTE COMPANY TIME HERE.....P.S. ALLHIPHOP IS BETTER THAN YOU GUYS.......

Posted by: 304kid at November 23, 2005 06:02 PM

MAAAN WHAT IT DO? DEEZ NIGGAZ WASENT ON TOP OF THEY SHIT. U HEAVY IN THE STREETS AND LEAVING PAPER TRAILS, AND TEXT TRAILS? COME ON! THE ONLY WAY U CAN MAYBE GET BY USEING TEXT MESSAGES TO COMMUNICATE DIRT IS TO NOT HAVE IT IN UR NAME AND DONT GET CAUGHT WITH IT IN UR POSSESSION. THAT WAY THEY CANT TIE U TO IT. OH YEA, STAY OFF THAT PHONE. CATCHING A CASE ON THE PHONE IS AUTOMATICALLY A CONSPIRICY CAUSE.
GET IT HOW U LIVE!

Posted by: TEXXXAS<--THATS WHATS UP! at November 23, 2005 08:06 PM

What yall don't know every comptuer has a serial number every library has a camer so even when you log in under a false name on this site and you talk reckless they know exactly who u r. you could be at school, at home or at the libary they r watching.

So with that said FUCK BUSH/and the vice president what ever his name is he's not seen at all fuck them white mf's

Time for blacks, west indians, hisipanics to come 2gather, even if america has to be split into to goverment, it's 2006 it's about to start looking like all the future movies we use to watch. phones u can see people, vidoe games with real people and sweat falling off shaq head

I heard they gave land on the moon to people

WHO THE FUCK OWN THE MOON TO GIVE LAND AWAY WHITE PEOPLE THINK THEY OWN THE MOON TO YALL WATCH THE NEWS NOT LOCAL BUT CNN. THEIR GIVING AWAY ACRES ON THE MOON. WHAT DO WHITE PEOPLE KNOW!

fUCK THAT DID ANYBODY ELSE HEAR THIS ABOUT THE MOON

EVEN IF WE CANNT GO THERE NOBODY OWNS THE MOON

IF 4 ONE DAY WE DO GO TO THE MOON AND SOMEBODY HAS LAND ALREADY, OR OWNS THE SHIT THEN IT'S WAR!

back to the blog, yeah they read everything we write but that real abot the moon watch out yall.

see what hip hop does it bring all 2gather

Posted by: iamthe goverment at November 23, 2005 08:47 PM

WOW how can a comment about text messages turn into hating on my boys g-unit and my man 50?? honestly this shit is whack.. how can y'all sit around and keep talkin pathetic shit about nothing really important at all.. grow up.. and quit hatin on 50.. he'd kill y'all if he heard the shit u've been talkin bout him..

Posted by: fiftysmami at November 23, 2005 09:05 PM

Timothy Shut the fuck up. Damn you a dumb mother fucker.

I dont care if you being sarcastic or not its annoying.

And FUCK the patriot act! I mean i'm sure its got some good to it, but damn! Everything you do has to be on the low as it is, now we gotta be even Lower?

Damn damn -AND fuck all you haters out there - I can't stand either of them inc-unit. Murder inc (yes i said it) used to be all right..then they slipped, and fell hard when 50 started to blow. But now 50 turned his g-unit into the murder inc he destroyed.

and no more 50 Inc bullshit - FUCK EVERYONE all you cocksuckers piss me off!!

Posted by: Keept it Down at November 23, 2005 10:35 PM

i wish i had as many hoes as Ja Rule, but damn forty cent and dre know how to give me a nice threesome!!!!

Posted by: Eminem at November 24, 2005 05:05 AM

wuts up with these English cats talkin shit.. HAHA

Go drink some tea or wuteva yall do

u softer than the queen of england

Posted by: nagga at November 24, 2005 03:24 PM

Ayo Asiasiasia u need 2 chill dawg, cuz there tons of wyte people i kno who down with the Inc, and madd black people who with Gay Unit.

and man, like that dude said, they can do w/e they want now, technology aint safe no more. hell u might as well jus start writing letters N bullshyt again

btw, INC EMPIRE gotz FATAL HUSSEIN! ITS MURDA!!!

Posted by: Orlando at November 25, 2005 02:08 AM

You're followed and being watched everywhere and everyday. Simple TXT MSGS should be the least of your problems. You've got satellite dishes and cableboxes recording what your watching. You've got credit cards, library cards, even metrocards (is that just an NY thing?) being modified with chips to track you down. Got cameras inserted into traffic lights to catch your license plates and such. I won't even get into the satellite thing that you can acess on yahoo or google.

Only choice you got is to move to a remote location. Maybe Cambodia or something. But u still can't hide from that satellite. And dump your cell phone and your Ipod cause you better believe they got shit up on there too.

Posted by: NeverScaredAlwaysFeared at November 25, 2005 11:17 AM

I think it has somethin' to do wit' the name" MURDER INC". Just think if the FEDS wanted to get text mess from people or organzations they thought were gettin' away wit' somethin'. The name MURDER would strike there interest.

Posted by: Fitz at November 25, 2005 03:14 PM

Any electronic transmission that you make can be intercepted by the government. 99.9% of the time the government could care less but if you are deemed a threat (terrorist, drug kingpin, pedophile or murderer) it can be easily intercepted or the government can subpoena the phone company, cable company, bank, ISP provider to supply records. Email, cell and landline phones, Bluetooth, WI FI, can easily be intercepted by the government. The police planted a GPS under Scott Peterson’s vehicle and he returned to the scene of his wife body that’s how he was busted. I’m sure we all know people that were busted for conducting drug deals on their cell phone. I have a child hood friend that got 20 years Federal time based mainly on conducting drug deals on his cell phone. Big Brother is always watching if you are going to do some dirt it’s best to meet face to face.

Posted by: Kim_Jong_Il at November 25, 2005 03:32 PM

Thats exactly it Fitz, plus they giving jobs 2 ex-cons. I mean, look at Death Row! They got the same shyt on them in the 90s and Harry-O(drug dealer said 2 funded Death Row) went 2 prison. Anywayz, Harry-O outta jail now and he signed with the Inc xD

Posted by: Orlando at November 25, 2005 09:13 PM

Yo, unless the feds really wanna fuck you over then they can get that subpoena. Feds tried that shit on the Fam down here in the H and they couldn't.

Posted by: HighLife at November 25, 2005 10:33 PM

Many of you have brought up some great points. The thing is the people that do the most dirt always seem to want to put everyone else in check for what they are doing. The drug dealing, the "I'm tougher than you bravdo," killing, raping, terrorism, and everything else they throw you in prison for is how they got the very land they live on. It's only a crime when you start to or have the potential to amass the amount of power and wealth they do. Many of you are quite young that frequent these hip hop websites, but it would be worth it to do a little investigating into COINTELPRO which was a goverment sponsored terrorist and smear campaign against the Panthers and anyone else speaking out again the federal government. If you have the chance to check that out see if you can draw any comparisons to what is taking place within the hip hop community right now. Life is more than material items although they are nice true happiness and contentment is achieved through togetherness and understanding. Hopefully the petty beefs and misunderstandings that plague our streets and music industry can cease as most of these problems stem from our obsession of having bigger and better toys than the next man. Remember striving and flossing or two different things. Hold ya heads... Peace!!

Posted by: Dreadrastamon at November 26, 2005 04:23 AM

*striving is supposed to be surving (typing this on a sidekick)

Posted by: dreadedrastmon at November 26, 2005 04:32 AM

I know they are more secure than our comments on this blog..

STOP ERASING MY COMMENTS

Posted by: ONE at November 26, 2005 07:58 PM

Maybe it's just me, but why all the shock about the feds tapping into "private" conversations.Fuck Murder INC., they did it to themselves.Besides, how many "gangstas" do you know who sit up there and text message another nigga on some shit like that.Shit, I can't even have a normal phone convo without a nigga thinking his phone is tapped.

Posted by: I'm a Hater at November 26, 2005 09:23 PM

Murda INC. and Preme aint gangstas.
That rite there is a clear example of 'thugs' not gangstas.
one

Posted by: ONE at November 27, 2005 05:04 PM

^^^^end your miserable life wigger

hahaha

why am i hurting so many feelings these days?

IT'S MURDA~!HAHAHAHA

FUCKING RETARDS


OMG ASIASIASIA

GOOD NAME!!

GONE-UNIT!!HAHAHA THAT IS FUNNY.

Posted by: Ghost-Unit at November 27, 2005 11:17 PM

this is some real s***..
the gov. can do anything..
they got wires connected to evrybody..
no one is safe..

Posted by: GianKarlo at November 28, 2005 03:20 AM

My phone is very secure, How's the family?
Thank You for asking.

Posted by: Timothy at November 28, 2005 06:18 PM