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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Monday, November 28, 2016 a las 12:53:42PM +0200, Marcin Wójcik escribió:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I just recently experienced an issue where I received a notification of an
> incoming SMS message.
> 
> I tapped on the notification to view the SMS, which promptly opened the
> Messaging app showing nothing in the details screen other than the phone
> number in the header.
> 
> I proceeded to open the terminal and search for the message in the
> history.sqlite database, only to find that there are no messages from that
> number in the database.
> 
> " select * from text_events where senderId = 'number' "
> 
> The Messaging app's list view does not show this message either.
> 
> It seems like this message has just disappeared into the abyss...
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this issue?
> I fear that there are messages being sent to me that I never receive.
> 
> I have a BQ Aquaris e4.5 with Ubuntu 15.04 OTA-13 Krilin.

What comes to my mind is "Silent SMS" used by German secret services
(any may be others):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service#Silent_SMS

And may be the absents of any text related to the event makes the
message-app dropping it.

IMHO an OpenSource phone should notify the user when it detects such so
called "stealth pings"

	matthias

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