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<p class="MsoNormal">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…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Mark Stevens <manager@monmouth.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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>
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On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> NANOG <a href="mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org">
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Oliver O'Boyle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Matt Hoppes <a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net"><mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net></a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> North American Network Operators' Group <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We apologize for finally getting around to our job and doing what we were paid to do...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:27 PM Matt Hoppes <<a href="mailto:mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net">mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“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></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <<a href="mailto:bsvec@teamonesolutions.com" target="_blank">bsvec@teamonesolutions.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New",serif">From: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/" target="_blank">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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in a statement that its IT staff unknowingly caused the texts to be delivered this week."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca" target="_blank">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already<br>
are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text<br>
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