How is this exclusive to apple products in any way? A smart buyer can do this with ANY form of non disposable product.

MAYBE an energy company shouldn't use unlocked 3G cards to insecurely transmit data and allow anyone who gets their hands on a card to rack up $200k? Just saying.

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