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RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019
From: "Kain, Becki (.)" <bkain1 () ford com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 18:34:35 +0000
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 () nanog org> On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM To: Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () 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 () rivervalleyinternet net<mailto:mattlists () 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 () teamonesolutions com<mailto:bsvec () 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 () interlinx bc ca<mailto:brian () 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@>
Current thread:
- all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Chris Kimball via NANOG (Nov 07)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Brian J. Murrell (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Brandon Svec (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Matt Hoppes (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Oliver O'Boyle (Nov 08)
- RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Kain, Becki (.) (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Mark Stevens (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 David Hubbard (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Jared Geiger (Nov 08)
- RE: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Kain, Becki (.) (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Valdis Klētnieks (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Mark Delany (Nov 11)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Brandon Svec (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Clayton Zekelman (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Ben Cannon (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Brian J. Murrell (Nov 08)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Rich Kulawiec (Nov 11)
- Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019 Jim Shankland (Nov 08)