You don't need to go as far as govt. conspiring for telcos to be insecure (note: I'm not challenging that). Your average telco: 1 - Is just a commodity dumb p

You don't need to go as far as govt. conspiring for telcos to be insecure (note: I'm not challenging that). Your average telco: 1 - Is just a commodity dumb pipe with a shitty margin and no honest way of getting more money from customers. 2 - Outsources almost all engineering work to Nokia, Huawei, Cisco, etc...and smaller contractors. A consequence of (2) is that most have no strong engineering or long term thinking culture. I can guarantee you most telcos around the world don`t have basic security shit like having a password manager for router secrets solved correctly.