AT&T is loaded with liberal douchebags. I worked in Server operations, the entire network is full of spooks accessing whatever they want. Systems security department ignores it all even when reported. They are in on it. I'm sure all the telecoms etc operate the same way. Good luck trying to expose it.
So you remember they bought the brand new defunct mall in Schaumburg and made it corporate headquarters. I had a key card that opened any door in the place, every state every location. if it had a keycard my key worked. Totally unsecure. The network was even worse. We had shared user accts that were virtually untraceable. although everyone was assigned a user id we used unsecure logins to access everything with impunity. Anyone here that knows about it knows we used M00272 login and password @Pa$$word1 it was a fuckin joke. We had many such user ID's with godlike authority on the network.