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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:50 AM, David Hubbard <<a href="mailto:dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com" class="">dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Playing devil’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…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji';" class="">😊</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">David<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org" class="">nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org</a>> on behalf of Mark Stevens <<a href="mailto:manager@monmouth.com" class="">manager@monmouth.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">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.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NANOG<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><nanog-bounces@nanog.org></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Oliver O'Boyle<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Matt Hoppes<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net></a><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>North American Network Operators' Group<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><nanog@nanog.org></a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were paid to do...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes <<a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">“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. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class="">On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <<a href="mailto:bsvec@teamonesolutions.com" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">bsvec@teamonesolutions.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', serif;" class="">From: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', serif;" class="">It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', serif;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', serif;" class="">"</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">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."</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" width="300" style="width: 225pt;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: white; border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 11.25pt 0.75pt 7.5pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Courier New ;color:black';" class="">-Brandon</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt;" class="" type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +0000, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote:<br class="">> Does anyone have any more information on this?<br class=""><br class="">Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already<br class="">are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text<br class="">messages? And why?<br class=""><br class="">Cheers,<br class="">b.<o:p class=""></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">:o@></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>