SIM cards at risk Worldwide

[oneeyecarpenter]

Hi all,


If you have not read about this issue yet,then do so very soon! Here is a very comprehensive article about this serious vulnerability.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

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[Rukbat]

It's just a little more of the same. They're now going to monitor every cellphone conversation in the world? And analyze them all? There are only 7 billion people on the planet - if they were all cellphone call analysts, they'd fall further behind every day. (It takes longer to analyze a conversation than the conversation took.)

Considering that FISA is just a rubber stamp, this just saves them a few minutes when they want to monitor someone's phone.

And Gemalto will probably change their procedures so that it can't happen again, and in 6 months, anyone who wants to keep his conversations secret can damage his SIM card and ask for a new one - one the NSA doesn't have the code for.

They're not chopping out heads off, they're picking up a fallen hair.

 

[Kibojel]

i know this is a joke.
isnt it? lol

 

[Rukbat]

Maybe, but after seeing how the government has changed since WWII, I wouldn't put money on it. Ike warned us, and we didn't listen.