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 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>




> On Nov 8, 2019, at 10:50 AM, David Hubbard <[email protected]> 
> 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 <[email protected]> on behalf 
> of Mark Stevens <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 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 <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> On 
>> Behalf Of Oliver O'Boyle
>> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2019 1:31 PM
>> To: Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <[email protected]> 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>> 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 
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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