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

[ben at 6by7.net (Ben Cannon)]

Thatâ??d be an incredibly obtuse, excessive, and horrible order.   And itâ??d be the very first time thatâ??s ever happened...


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




> On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:50 AM, David Hubbard <dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com> wrote:
> 
> Playing devilâ??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 existâ?¦ may have just had to come up with something to say because their other agreements would not have permitted discarding the textsâ?¦ ð???
>  
> David
>  
> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dhubbard=dino.hostasaurus.com at nanog.org> on behalf of Mark Stevens <manager at monmouth.com>
> Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM
> To: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at 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 Valentineâ??s day.  Of all the days that clear communication is important.  Iâ??d be very interested in their reasoning for why these messages were not sent and held.
>>  
>> From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> <mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
>> To: Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> <mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>
>> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org> <mailto:nanog at 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 at rivervalleyinternet.net <mailto:mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>> wrote:
>>> â??During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operatorsâ?? subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement. 
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>>> how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isnâ??t that the desired outcome?
>>> 
>>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Svec <bsvec at teamonesolutions.com <mailto:bsvec at 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/ <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 at interlinx.bc.ca <mailto:brian at 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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