Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/08/mysterious-phone-texts-puzzle.html
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This sounds like an opportunity to prank people with nonsense texts, and blame the Blip.
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Something to do with a third party system update, apparently. Got a test from my daughter (away at college) at 0430, which is not an ideal way to wake up. Adrenaline surge and all, not my favorite.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cell-phones-mysterious-text-messages_n_5dc4424fe4b0d8eb3c917dcf
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Texts bouncing off the Monolith by Jupiter.
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NSA - Oops, we forgot to put this batch back after reading them.
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If I were quicker on the ball, I would have taken the cue to start randomly texting friends Valentine’s Day salutations when this news first broke.
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We get your text messages through. no matter what.
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Explanation here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953422/text-messages-delayed-received-overnight-valentines-day-delay
A company named Syniverse, which provides networking services, later took blame for the messages being delayed. Syniverse said a single server was at fault: that server failed on February 14th, trapping messages waiting to be sent out; the server was only brought back online on November 7th. When that happened, all of the messages were finally delivered.
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This, right here, is why sms needs to die on the wire.
We don’t need dumb, non-checksummed, no-delivery-confirmation, unencrypted networks anymore.
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I saw reports of some friends getting messages from dead people.
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Right when everyone is ramping up their quantum computing. With quantum, there is no coincidence.
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With all the spying accusations and the NSA and they don’t know where the calls from. What are we paying taxes for?
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I didn’t mind a few random texts from the past. The ones from the future are a little spooky, though.
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Are we sure it doesn’t involve some intelligence agency?
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My small phone carrier seems to do this every so often, even with phone calls. Doesn’t bother me, but it can lead to eerie situations, i.e. I’m talking to someone in person, my phone rings and its their phone number, from a call they had made earlier finally connecting. (When I answered it, there was, of course, no one there.)
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“Mr. President, this is of the utmost urgency - Rudy has been making a fucking mess over here, please leash your dog or this is going to bite us all in the ass.”
- Amb. Sondland
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Its a fat electron, stuck in a transistor.
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Hey now, don’t be talking about my sistor, or ima clapback about Oumuama! 
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Happens occasionally on my Hangouts app (via Google Fi, which uses T-Mobile, Sprint & US Cellular), but not with that long a duration of time (but long enough to be a problem!)
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I often get texts hours, or days later. I assumed this happened to everyone, all the time.
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