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

[Trevor Manternach <trevormanternach () gmail com>]

I believe Syniverse only comes into play when you text someone on a
different carrier than your own. Syniverse is basically the middle-man for
that message delivery, and a server of theirs just spooled ~150k messages
until someone rebooted/fixed that server.

It sounds like these messages were never originally delivered to begin
with, so "re-sent" is not exactly accurate.

--
Trevor Manternach


On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 10:56 AM 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
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM Brian J. Murrell <brian () interlinx bc ca>
> wrote:
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> > 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.