all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

Fri Nov 8 18:43:41 UTC 2019

Reading Syniverse's cause of trouble (lame excuse) tells me their data 
handling processes are poor and seemingly shady since I do not buy 
reason for the trouble.

On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:
>
> Esp on Valentine’s day.  Of all the days that clear communication is 
> important.  I’d be very interested in their reasoning for why these 
> messages were not sent and held.
>
> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Oliver O'Boyle
> *Sent:* Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
> *To:* Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>
> *Cc:* North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
> *Subject:* Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight 
> that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019
>
> We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we 
> were paid to do...
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes 
> <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net 
> <mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote:
>
>     “During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149
>     previously undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to
>     multiple mobile operators’ subscribers," Syniverse said in a
>     statement.
>
>     how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be
>     sent but worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?
>
>
>     On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec
>     <bsvec at teamonesolutions.com <mailto:bsvec at teamonesolutions.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         From:
>         https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/
>
>         It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..
>
>         "Some mobile carriers rely on a third-party text platform
>         called Syniverse to relay messages. The vendor said in a
>         statement that its IT staff unknowingly caused the texts to be
>         delivered this week."
>
>         -Brandon
>
>         On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell
>         <brian at interlinx.bc.ca <mailto:brian at interlinx.bc.ca>> wrote:
>
>             On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +0000, Chris Kimball via NANOG
>             wrote:
>             > Does anyone have any more information on this?
>
>             Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the
>             NSA already
>             are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s
>             text
>             messages?  And why?
>
>             Cheers,
>             b.
>
>
> -- 
>
> :o@>
>

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