It's been 24 hours since Verizon says their engineers fixed the problem, so they must know what happened. Anybody else find it strange that no information has been provided, plus the news cycle has moved on and nobody seems to care?
Verizon's silence makes me suspect it involved some kind of malicious attack, not just a firmware update gone bad or some tech pushing the wrong button. I am usually contemptuous of conspiracy theories plus I subscribe to Hanlon's Razor. But I wonder if there was some kind of DOS attack on the SIM authentication process. Or if they intentionally limited authentications to mitigate some kind of attack. Something seems fishy.
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