The Morning After: 12 years in jail for unlocking smartphones

The mastermind behind a seven-year scheme to illegally unlock AT&T handsets has been sentenced to 12 years in jail . Muhammad Fahd unlocked phones for ineligible customers who still had to pay off the cost of their smartphone. AT&T says 1.9 million handsets were unlocked in this manner, and it lost around $201.5 million because of the scheme. Fahd contacted and subsequently bribed an AT&T employee to help unlock devices until the company locked down the system. Consequently, Fahd commissioned ma...