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Simjacker Phone Hijack
YouTube ^ | 17 September 2019 | TWiT Tech Podcast Network

Posted on 09/19/2019 2:00:01 PM PDT by Windflier

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To: chulaivn66

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/alexa/9n12z3cctcnz?cid=A4PCemail&rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab


21 posted on 09/19/2019 3:38:33 PM PDT by chulaivn66 ("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
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To: Dr. Sivana

Gibson Tools, yes it set the Standard for DOS back in the day.

I believe I used their Defragger.

Computers and HDD’s were slow enough back then that Defragging a drive was halfway entertaining.


22 posted on 09/19/2019 3:46:34 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: fruser1
All cell phones have a SIM card.

Not sure if that is true.

My phone is an LG UN 170, and i'm not finding any information about it having a SIM card.

This link says a bunch of basic LG phones don't support SIM cards.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-52469/

If you can find information which says my UN 170 has a SIM card, i'll concede the point.

23 posted on 09/19/2019 3:59:17 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Cell phones old enough that this couldn’t theoretically affect them do not work with the current networks.

As for nobody wanting to hack it... People will hack connected pet food dishes and refrigerators. Your cell phone is considerably higher on their list of desired targets.


24 posted on 09/19/2019 4:39:12 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: DiogenesLamp
Ok, you're right.

The phone identifying info for that model is built into the phone itself (number assignment module) and does not actually use a removable sim card.

Sim cards are associated with the GSM protocol within which this hack operates. Your phone is using the preGSM protocol called CDMA.

So not only are you right, you're safe!

Here's a link to the instruction manual.

https://www.lg.com/us/support/products/documents/LG-UN170_USC_UG_Web_EN_V1.0_140829.pdf

25 posted on 09/19/2019 4:45:23 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DiogenesLamp

https://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-UN170-envoy-iii

SPECIFICATIONS

Type
Basic

Form Factor
Flip

Technology
CDMA*

All GSM and CDMA phones are affected. CDMA has a SIM equivalent but most cheaper CDMA phones don’t have a removable one.


26 posted on 09/19/2019 4:48:10 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: moovova
They’re gonna get tired of waiting for me to get off the couch.

Ditto that!.....LOL!

27 posted on 09/19/2019 4:48:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Gideon7

Sprint is a legacy CDMA carrier and that’s why their system works that way. They have SIM cards on current phones because most phones today require a SIM to be present as they are multi-network phones and have a SIM tray or use eSIMs - and they require *something* to be present for the phone to initialize.


28 posted on 09/19/2019 4:50:21 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Gideon7

Forgot to mention - they also have to have a SIM card to access 4G LTE networks, as to connect to 4G LTE, you *must* have a SIM card.

Sprint will reportedly kill access to their network for anything less than 4G LTE in 2020 or 2021, Verizon is killing their 2G and 3G CDMA and forcing LTE at the end of this year.


29 posted on 09/19/2019 5:11:25 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Swordmaker
Thanks for all your efforts. 😁 By the way bro, my son finally flew solo in his USAF aircraft. 👍🛩
30 posted on 09/19/2019 8:37:44 PM PDT by Mark17 (Once saved, always saved. I do not care if some do not like that. It will NEVER be my problem)
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To: Swordmaker
"they have only very dumb processors with very limited RAM (like 8k to 64K of RAM)"

LOL, Swordmaker! You just described my Apple //+ -- with which I wrote the first running version of my "Digital Trowel" graphical analysis software for archaeological excavations -- including "scattergrams" & "contour plots" of artifact concentrations.

And, I wrote it in AppleSoft BASIC -- without making very many hex calls to ROM subroutines or to many subroutines I wrote in the mini-assembler...

My point: You can get quite a bit done within 64K of RAM -- if that's all you have available...

TXnMA
  

31 posted on 09/20/2019 1:01:47 AM PDT by TXnMA (Occam's Razor says that most conspiracist "brain farts" are simply indefensible...)
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To: moovova
And then I’m only going to either the bathroom...or the fridge.

I remember when someone posted a tool to download the tracker file from an iPhone, I downloaded that file from my iPhone and all it showed was a big red dot.

32 posted on 09/20/2019 5:19:15 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: TXnMA
LOL, Swordmaker! You just described my Apple //+ -- with which I wrote the first running version of my "Digital Trowel" graphical analysis software for archaeological excavations -- including "scattergrams" & "contour plots" of artifact concentrations.

Yes, you can. I once programmed a Commodore Vic-20 to simulate a Roulette wheel, complete with the sound of a bouncing ball, random results, flashing red, black, and occasional green screens and a final random number result including the 0 and 00 house win, (coming up with a truly random number generator was the real problem), and it used all but one byte of the 20K RAM available. If I used that last byte, the program wouldn’t run.

On the SIM card you’d also have to have some storage area. I think an EEPROM where the programming is stored that is dependent on an external computer to program it is the limiting factor here. . . Plus a means of communicating with and re-programming the CPU of the main device to tap into 64 bit data over a 64 bit data bus, to be able to send that data anywhere is also very problematic. Frankly, I don’t see it happening.

I wonder why the processor in the SIM would be anything beyond a minimal 8 or 16 bit device. A SIM is designed to work at low power draw while the device is idle and even while the device is asleep, maintaining contact and awareness of the local cell towers. Anything more would be overkill for the purpose, don’t you think?

33 posted on 09/20/2019 9:14:05 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker
coming up with a truly random number generator was the real problem actually can’t be done in a purely digital process.
I mean, you can come arbitrarily close, but truly random? No.

34 posted on 09/21/2019 11:17:59 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
I mean, you can come arbitrarily close, but truly random? No.

True, especially back then when there was no random number generating chip in computers, but you can come up with an environmental or human factor random number created from when a finger strikes a key, or a clock tick from when the program is started. IIRC, for the seed, I used a counter from when the program started until the user struck a key multiplied by the next key strike, divided by another key strike time. That gave me a environmental time tick that was essentially random, constrained to give a result in the integer range of the roulette wheel. The next one was generated from the time since the last spin finished until the user presses a key starting the wheel spin and the second is when the user released of the ball, and the third was the original seed number, apply the algorithm to constrain, voila, the winning number. . . Simple but it worked.

Perhaps it could be gamed if someone knew that was how it was generated, but no one knew that. I tried, with no success.

35 posted on 09/21/2019 1:01:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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