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

Fri Nov 8 17:54:21 UTC 2019

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>
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.
>
>
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