SEND A ONE-TIME PRIVATE MESSAGE
- Fully Encrypted
- Plain Text Is Never Stored on Your Device (or Any Device)
- No Account or Registration Required
- Only a Browser is Needed to Send or Receive
- Once a Text is Decrypted and Read, It Can Be Accessed by No One
- An Instant and Disposable Link
- A One-Time Message Protected From Its Hosting Service.
How is my message kept private? All encryption and decryption is carried out in the browser - no servers are involved. This ensures that the servers can only pass the encrypted data around but stay uninformed as to the message content at all times. This IM service does not have an ability to decrypt any messages.
What Is Text Me FYI?
It is your private, non-cached message delivery channel to another party. The difference is: this service cannot access your text message. Nor does it have any data about you.
Short FAQ
Why a one-time message service?
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- True privacy
- Not cached on any device
- Cannot be read twice
- Protected from this service
- Encrypted in transit and storage
FAQ
What is the point of a one-time message service?
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- Send sensitive data to family and trusted friends
- Share account numbers, passwords, login codes with those that you trust (and no one else)
- Send confidential links and notes to any recipient
- Use FileSender.io to send documents and attachments
Aren't my SMS already protected?
Most people don't realize that the contents of their SMS/MMS messages are not private at all. Text messages are accessible to phone companies in plain text: they are stored for years, remain on servers after being deleted from your device, and remain subject to legal subpoenas, warrants, and monitoring.
Not only can rogue employees at data centers read your private texts, but so can threat actors (hackers) who manage to get access to your phone company's servers.
Isn't my message privacy already protected with end-to-end (E2E) encryption in WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and other secure messaging apps?
The popular "secure messaging" apps are still subject to warrants, subpoenas, increasing censorship, and government rules requiring providers to hand over the data about you when so ordered, including all identifying information, IP addresses, locations, device details, information on who you chat with and who is in your contacts list, chat frequency and volume, and in some cases, the content of your chats, if available. This is done pursuant to regulations focusing on your safety and that of the public at large.
If the link to read the message must be shared with my recipient via a text, SMS, iMessage, What's App, or another chat, doesn't it defeat the purpose of using this service?
Not ar all. Unlike sending the text of the message itself, sending a one-time link preserves true privacy because your message cannot be decrypted by this service, may only be read once by your recipient, and is never cached on any device. Sent once, read once.
Why not use my existing messaging app? Because of low trust of "free" popular apps, which:
1) Require a phone number and registration;
2) May monitor your conversation, and analyze it for keywords and patters for "your safety";
3) Record your IP address, time zone, and location;
4) Track who you talk to and when, their names, phone numbers, and locations;
5) Trace you across multiple devices and web sites;
6) Sell information about your interests, contacts, habits, and locations to third parties;
7) Keep certain copies of your messages unencrypted, cleverly, under the auspices of backups.How can a one-time message and its URL be protected from the web site providing the service?
The full generated URL consists of two parts, the server part and the local part. Decryption is only possible with the URL fragment generated locally in your browser (the part after the '#' sign), which is never shared with our servers, even when the link is clicked. This behavior is by design in all modern browsers.
The service is provided free of charge for personal use, courtesy of Text Me FYI.