Buried the lede here a bit didn’t we?
I’m all for criticizing and taking the carriers to task for locking out services on devices you own (or are rent-to-owning, or whatever), but if someone bribes employees to weaken your network or otherwise breach your infrastructure, that changes things. No one who does that is getting off the hook in this security admin’s book. There’s too high a risk that these “changes” might let other bad actors with an eye to customer data getting in.
