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

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

That’d be an incredibly obtuse, excessive, and horrible order.   And it’d be the very first time that’s ever happened...


-Ben Cannon
CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC 
ben () 6by7 net <mailto:ben () 6by7 net>




> On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:50 AM, David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com> wrote:
>
> 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… 😊
>  
> David
>  
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com () nanog org> on behalf of Mark Stevens <manager () monmouth 
> com>
> Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM
> To: "nanog () nanog org" <nanog () nanog org>
> Subject: Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's 
> Day 2019
>  
> 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.
>
> On 11/8/2019 1:34 PM, Kain, Becki (.) wrote:
> > 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> <mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
> > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
> > To: Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> <mailto:mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net>
> > Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org> <mailto: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/
> > > >  
> > > > <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@>