Confide: An App That Makes It Easier To Cheat In A Relationship (VIDEO)

One suspicious text, misdirected email or poorly-timed call, could be enough to unravel a relationship or expose the dark secrets of a cheating partner.

Now an app, billed as the "Snapchat for professionals", has been launched to keep those misdeeds under wrap, UK MailOnline reported. Named Confide, the text-based iOS app is the creation of former AOL executive, Jon Brod, and chief executive of Yext Howard Lerman.

By creating a version for business professionals that would keep sensitive communication secret, the New York-based team plans to capitalize on Snapchat's success. According to UK MailOnline, Brod claims the idea came about after Lerman contacted him by email about a potential employee who Brod wasn't comfortable discussing in writing.

"Think about the times someone sends a memo that says, 'Confidential, do not forward,'" or when someone asks for your personal e-mail to go off the company's network," Brod told Businessweek.

Initially hidden under solid blocks, text messages are revealed one line at a time if the recipient swipes his or her finger over a block. And just as teens have used the disappearing photo function of Snapchat for sexting, many have pointed out that Confide could be used by those in a relationship to cheat.

"We don't have the technology to read your messages," Lerman told Businessweek. "Confide doesn't store any messages on its servers, it doesn't have the ability to retrieve them if a company, or the National Security Agency, comes knocking."

Unlike Snapchat which connects users through their phone numbers, Confide connects potential users through their email addresses, UK MailOnline reported. It's also difficult to take screenshots of messages sent through Confide due to the app's interface, Lerman said. It includes end-to-end encryption and Confide doesn't possess a retrievable copy of the message.

Disclosure demands can then be responded to by both the company and users through stating that the message in question has simply disappeared. But just as hackers have found ways to expose flaws in Snapchat, it remains to be seen how solid Confide is in its security, according to UK MailOnline.

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