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

[Clayton Zekelman <clayton () MNSi Net>]

Under emergency court order not to deliver 
texts?  Not delivering tens of thousands of 
messages would appear to be abuse of the legal process if it were true.

Scary....

At 01:50 PM 08/11/2019, David Hubbard 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 
> <mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org><nanog-bounces () nanog org> 
> On Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
> To: Matt Hoppes 
> <mailto:mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net><mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net>
> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group 
> <mailto: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
>
> 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 
> <<mailto:mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net>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 
> <<mailto:bsvec () teamonesolutions com>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 
> <<mailto:brian () interlinx bc ca>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@>

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