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

Fri Nov 8 19:38:17 UTC 2019

Under emergency court order not to deliver 
texts?  Not delivering tens of thousands of 
messages would appear to be abuse of the legal process if it were true.

Scary....

At 01:50 PM 08/11/2019, David Hubbard wrote:
>Playing devilâ€™s advocate, perhaps they were 
>under emergency court order to not deliver texts 
>for a certain duration, market, who knows what, 
>and that order just ended, but some type of 
>non-disclosure / secrecy directive continues to 
>exist
 may have just had to come up with 
>something to say because their other agreements 
>would not have permitted discarding the texts

>
>David
>
>From: NANOG 
><nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com at nanog.org> 
>on behalf of Mark Stevens <manager at monmouth.com>
>Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM
>To: "nanog at nanog.org" <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
>
>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 Valentineâ€™s day.  Of all the days that 
>clear communication is important.  Iâ€™d be very 
>interested in their reasoning for why these messages were not sent and held.
>
>From: NANOG 
><mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org><nanog-bounces at nanog.org> 
>On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
>Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
>To: Matt Hoppes 
><mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net><mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>
>Cc: North American Network Operators' Group 
><mailto:nanog at nanog.org><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 
><<mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> 
>wrote:
>â€œDuring an internal maintenance cycle last 
>night, 168,149 previously undelivered text 
>messages were inadvertently sent to multiple 
>mobile operatorsâ€™ subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement.
>
>
>how do you inadvertently send messages that were 
>supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isnâ€™t that the desired outcome?
>
>On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec 
><<mailto:bsvec at teamonesolutions.com>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/>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 
><<mailto:brian at interlinx.bc.ca>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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