I think that the only issue I have with this forum is, in all the time this thread has been running, only one verizon support person, Jennifer, contributed with a single post.  This was greatly appreciated by me even if it didn't add anything we didn't know to the discussion.  I wish there were more support persons that took an active role to either dissuade us, comfort us, or help us in our goals.

Where did you read that BB isn't going to update Verizon?  As far as I know they will send the October Security Updates to Verizon along with all their other carriers.  I haven't seen the list of vulnerabilities yet.  If it's like all the other updates, it will probably fix 40 vulnerabilities.  Add that to the list of 260 that's sitting somewhere in Verizon instead of pushing them to our phones.