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

[Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net>]

“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> wrote:
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> From: 
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/
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> It seems there is a company that has everyone's text messages..
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> "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
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> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <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.