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The GSM protocol will keep a message in the queue for up to 63 weeks pending delivery. So imagine your phone was turned off for several weeks and then you turn it on... All pending text messages are going to dump in all at once. Not really a security flaw there just a case of the sender's not knowing that the recipient no longer has that number.
Now if you port it in your number that's a different story entirely, unless you were assigned a temporary number pending the completion of the port.
The GSM protocol will keep a message in the queue for up to 63 weeks pending delivery. So imagine your phone was turned off for several weeks and then you turn it on... All pending text messages are going to dump in all at once. Not really a security flaw there just a case of the sender's not knowing that the recipient no longer has that number.
Now if you port it in your number that's a different story entirely, unless you were assigned a temporary number pending the completion of the port.
The phone number is newly provided by BM. The phone was my own and previously on a different carrier and unlocked months ago. The text messages were LIVE. If I had wanted to, I could have texted with the guy. I was tempted to do so to let the guy know of the infraction, but didn't want to get in deeper. Yes, some messages were a few months old and could have been dumped from queue, but again -- I was receiving very current texts and even an image of a youngster to/from the guys number three days ago. The currency of the messages reveals a severe security matter. To me, this is a HUGE deal. I hope BM looks into it.
I have a hunch that you were actually receiving group text messages and the other members of the group didn't realize that this person (Just one member of the group) no longer had access to what became your new number. Outbound text messages are never delivered back to the originating device so there's no way that you could have seen messages originating from your new number. So if you saw conversation happening then it was certainly other members of a group MMS session.
Again, none of this is a security flaw.
You can easily reproduce this: start a new group text with a group of people and ask them to continue exchanging messages. Turn your phone off and put it in a drawer for weeks or even months. Turn it back on and see what happens....
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I have a hunch that you were actually receiving group text messages and the other members of the group didn't realize that this person (Just one member of the group) no longer had access to what became your new number. Outbound text messages are never delivered back to the originating device so there's no way that you could have seen messages originating from your new number. So if you saw conversation happening then it was certainly other members of a group MMS session.
Again, none of this is a security flaw.
You can easily reproduce this: start a new group text with a group of people and ask them to continue exchanging messages. Turn your phone off and put it in a drawer for weeks or even months. Turn it back on and see what happens....
What you write sounds intriguing. I'm not an avid texter or advanced smart phone user, so those points are beyond my scope. If the BM rep cited those scenarios, I may not have closed my account. But I did, so I cannot put what you suggest to the test. BTW, I failed to mention that the phone number that my phone was using was not the number listed on my BM account page. Again, it's beyond me and sort of moot to me now, Except to write I still feel uncomfortable of what happened. The BM rep even said he's never heard of such a thing, but I realize that may be based on limited experience/training/knowledge. As great slickdeals is and love being on the learning curve, this is a terrible way to spend part of my holiday
Dish Network owns Boost Mobile
AT&T owns DirecTV
Yet Boost/Dish made a $5 billion+ deal with the competitor AT&T. ðĪŠ Huh.
Nothing surprising these days though. ð
This is nothing new
Netflix is hosted on Amazon cloud who have Prime Video as their competitor
I am sure Google has a deal with Apple for Google services to work on iPhones
etc. .....
Just kidding
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