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Rooting SIM Cards

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there's still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card. Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards, and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud."

2 of 73 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Rooting? by mynamestolen · · Score: 4, Funny

    either way, you're rooted

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    work in progress
  2. Meanwhile at NSA HQ by EEPROMS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn we have been busted.