短信是近几年才出现的新事物。短信在社会生活中的广泛应用使短信成为证据法领域里的一个新课题。从司法实践和立法实践都表明,短信应当具有证据能力。由于短信自身的特性和对案件的证明方式,短信证据应当归属为一种独立的证据,而且,在现有技术和社会条件下,在刑事诉讼中只能作为间接证据出现。 SMS is something new in recent years. The wide application of SMS in social life makes SMS a new topic in the field of evidence law. From the judicial practice and legislative practice have shown that SMS should have the evidence ability. Due to the nature of the message itself and the proof of the case, the evidence of the message should be attributed to an independent evidence and, under existing technical and social conditions, can only appear as indirect evidence in criminal proceedings.