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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Email is not available for this purposes since it does not exist outside desktop and laptop computers. Instant Messaging is preferred because unlinke email (which gets stored in the PC or laptop's memory then its sent, and thus is called store-foward) its sent without any record being kept. Troubble is that instant messaging is not available outside desktops and laptops. The only thing that is available is something called text messages, thus they have no choice to use that for covert communications.
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Email and IM are both available on most cell phones now. The reason texting is more popular is because it doesn't require a data plan or internet connection like most email and IM functions do, and it doesn't require any additional set up other than the recipients phone number.
Also, most email is not stored on the providers server somewhere not the users local hard drive. Unless it is configured to do both.
I'd agree with your covert communications theory except for two things:
First and most importantly, people use it all the time, whether in school or out, at home or in the car.
Secondly, in my daughter's school, and most others I'd bet, if they get caught texting in class they get their phone taken away.