More realistically how it works in giant mega-corporations is a contractual arrangement with another company works until it doesn't, and after the contract is n

More realistically how it works in giant mega-corporations is a contractual arrangement with another company works until it doesn't, and after the contract is no longer in force... well... its all over. There's a subgenre of the above where mega-corporations set up and later dissolve an entire department. So any employee who could unlock those devices was probably downsized months or even years ago when the project was internally cancelled and the shutdown was planned. First, fire the engineers because we're cancelling so no possibility of R+D, whoopsie that means no possibility of unlocking, oh well.