Could be an interesting basis for a class action negligence lawsuit. Even if it was lost, it would become a factor in future business plans.
The purpose of a civilized society is precisely to avoid this sort of ``arms race'' between bandits and those who pay for services. Even
This "arms race" would not have been necessary had the vendors and cellular carriers not been so short sighted as to not put meaningful cryptographic security into their system at the very beginning. All of the technology necessary to prevent the now-rampant snooping and replay of ESNs already existed in the early 1980s when AMPS was being deployed. It certainly exists now.
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