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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: "Oliver O'Boyle" <oliver.oboyle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:30:46 -0500
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> 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> 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> 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.
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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)