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> On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle

Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM

To: Matt Hoppes <mattlists@rivervalleyinternet.net>

Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <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> 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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