A New York Times article provided detailed information on this in 2008.[25] Another countermeasure is to use a service that provides a public phone number and publishes the SMS messages received at that number to a publicly accessible website.[26] Google Voice can be used in this way, but with numbers and messages kept private. most cell phone providers offer the option of completely disabling all text messaging services on a user's account. This extreme solution, however, is satisfactory only for those users who have neither the need nor the desire to utilize SMS at all.