Incidentally, this strikes me as a good instance for anyone who thinks that ‘golden key’ systems could possibly be secure against the human element, even if technically impeccable.
Phone unlock codes fall in the same category of per-device, supposed to be secret but rather desirable; and also needing to be widely available(for basically any local phone shop or call center to hand them out to the qualifying).
Shockingly, that isn’t an arrangement that keeps secrets. I don’t really follow the phone forums anymore; but if memory serves there are at least some handsets where no viable hack is known to exist; but there is little shortage of sketchy characters capable of conjuring up the key to a bootloader or SIM lock with just an IMEI and a suitable helping of US Treasury lettuce.
