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

Kain, Becki (.) bkain1 at ford.com
Fri Nov 8 18:34:35 UTC 2019


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.


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