Your SMS will self-destruct in 40,39,38...

Service provider called Staellium has come up with another neat idea for mobile phones - self-destructing SMS. By using their service StealthText your SMS's will be automatically deleted within 40 of opening them. This system is mainly ment for businessmen who exchange sensitive information via SMS's. In case of this service, it's not the recipient who gets to make the decision whether to keep the message or not, but rather sender.

Here's how it works:

Mobile users that want to subscribe to the service text STEALTH to 80880 to receive a link that will allow them to download the StealthText applet via a WAP connection. Users key in a code before they send the StealthText message.

Once a message has been sent, the recipient receives a text notification showing the sender's name and providing a link to the message. Once the message is opened, it will disappear after a short period of time (about 40 seconds). To unsubscribe, users can text STOP to 80880.

To comply with legal requirements, when the message is deleted from the recipient's phone, the "paper trail" and log stays on a protected, secure server for a period of time before being completely deleted, the company said. To prevent abuse, the recipient has no access to the server.

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Reminds me of old James Bond movies when self destructing letters were used..maybe they will come up also with self destructing emails,or at least retrievable emails.