“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 <bs...@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 <br...@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. >>
