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So hopefully everyone has heard of Google by now. If you haven’t then I don’t know where you’ve been living.. But back onto the subject. Google is a giant living on the internet. Starting off with a simple search engine and a quirky name. The name itself is genius. When you compare saying yahoo or Metacrawler, Google rolls of the tongue easily. But we can’t forget Bing. Why? Because it’s a secret acronym for “Bing Is Not Google”, which then goes into a paradox because ‘Bing’ in that is another acronym for…, a redundant joke. It’s ease of use and reliability has led Google to become dominant in the search engine industry. But as a business that did not stop them.

Google had the chance to forge the one ring of power. The one ring to rule them all. From search engines then went onto making a profound email service. This led to them buying Youtube, creating Google Earth, IGoogle, etc. This leads to a cool thing that Google has created. Google SMS, which is located here. Now wait Google has a SMS server? Why yes. Yes they do. SMS.google.com. So does this mean that Google can be treated as one Giant internet cell phone? Why yes. Yes it can. Every cell phone company has their own servers. For example Virgin: phone#@vmobl.com. So in theory if someone has the phone number: 123-456-7890. 1234567890@vmobl.com would be the address of the cell phone. And you had access to, let’s say, a sSMTP server. I’m looking at you Google! Think of the possibilities! This means that you can send Text Messages through a Gmail account. Simply put find out your carrier, let’s stick to virgin still for the sake of consistency, and with the knowledge of your cell phone carrier send an email to yourphone#@vmobl.com. And there you have it! Texting to people from your email.

Now for the fun part. It is really simple to write a program to send messages to others. Start of with starting up linux and running:

sudo apt-get install ssmtp

After you install ssmtp, open up the configuration file with your choice of text edit, be it nano, vi , or kate. The file should be located in etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. Once you find the file add these following lines.

AuthUser=GmailAccount@gmail.com
AuthPass=GmailPassword
FromLineOverride=YES
Mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES

After the configuration file is set up open a new file, name it smsbomber.sh, and copy this into it:

#Begin Script
#!/bin/sh
Echo Please, enter number
read NUMBER
echo Please, enter message
read MESSAGE
cat $MESSAGE | mail –s “SMSBOMBER” $NUMBER
#End Script

After the file is saved to make it runnable.

Chmod 777 smsbomber.sh

And to run it.

/smsbomber.sh

Enjoy.