[Tichy]

Wouldn't such a customer be worth gold? A single user that constantly get's attacked by hackers would provide a great opportunity to detect and fix security holes. If a hacker get's through, it is just one person's account compromised. But each detected attack could prevent attacks on other accounts.

I think some other telco should pay Mitnick to become their customer. How else could you attract so many hacker brains and make them work on finding security flaws in your system?

[wmf]

A single user that constantly gets attacked by hackers would provide a great opportunity to detect and fix security holes.

Assuming that they want to fix the holes, which AT&T probably doesn't. They may be using the "infinite bugs" model, in which fixing one bug does not improve security because there are always other bugs the attackers can find.

[Tichy]

Brilliant - an infinite number of bugs might confuse hackers so much that they don't know where to start and just give up.

[sketerpot]

It also keeps the hacking attempts more-or-less contained to a single known user's account. Handy!