There were numerous reports on reddit's r/tmobile about how the "port validation" password was trivially bypassed. People would perform social engineering atta

There were numerous reports on reddit's r/tmobile about how the "port validation" password was trivially bypassed. People would perform social engineering attacks against themselves and find that the port validation password was not necessary. So you may ignore that piece of advice and presume your phone number may be stolen at any time by a persuasive enough attacker. Why? Because customer support people are underpaid and outsourced. edit: Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7nhr0a/psa_port_validation_apparently_does_nothing_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7nhr0a/psa_port_va...