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TFA states after T-Mobile terminated their relationship with his business, he social engineered their help desk to steal credentials from other employees. It al
by nulbyte 4y ago
TFA states after T-Mobile terminated their relationship with his business, he social engineered their help desk to steal credentials from other employees. It also states he made $25MM from the use of the stolen credentials.
Not that I disagree that telcos should stop locking phones. Then again, this is why I don't buy telco branded phones to start with.
- cyberphobe 4y agobut it doesn't seem like he did anything (morally) wrong with that access. Just helped people dodge T-Mobile's abusive practices. It would be one thing if there was like SIM swapping or something, but it doesn't look like that happened here.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago> Just helped people dodge T-Mobile's abusive practices. I would not call T-Mobile offering to subsidize a device in exchange for a $x per month for a y months as abuse by T-Mobile.
- Beaver117 4y agoNobody is forced to use T mobile, there are tons of smaller MVNOs that are cheap and no-contract.