To: Windflier; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
SimJacker in the wild. . . Exploited by sending an SMS message. Works with government to monitor individuals. Using spyware like code, instructs the SIM card to take over the phone to retrieve and perform specific code to retrieve data using a SIMcard S@T browser (say what?). SIM cards are a ROM, supposedly all makes and models of phones. Affecting over 1 billion phones. Uses the SIM Application Toolkit programmed into the SIM card which is an antiquated legacy set of commands left over from GSM flipphones which used commandline menueing screen commands systems but has been forgotten and just left in the SIMs. All GSM and CDMA system phones have this in them. Oops! It is estimated this has likely been exploited to target specific individuals for at least two years. —PING!
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11 posted on
09/19/2019 2:31:31 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
12 posted on
09/19/2019 2:35:18 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce
PING to dayglored, Thundersleeps and ShadowAce for your pinglists.
Depending on who is reporting this SimJacker, this exploit either affects all cellular phones with a GSM and CDMA standard, or not. . . I suspect it does. It’s in the standard and unless the people who maintain the code have taken specific steps to remove the toolkit from the code it’s in there. AT&T claims their SIM cards don’t have it, but why do I doubt them, they’ve never been known to lie before (ROTFLMAO!) about something that might negatively impact their bottom line have they(?), and Verizon says “they’re not sure” or something similar. Experts in the SIM field are all scratching their heads over it. . . So the question is up in the air.
13 posted on
09/19/2019 2:40:53 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
Sword, if you know, does this also affect devices using eSIMs or just those using physical SIM cards?
14 posted on
09/19/2019 2:47:27 PM PDT by
House Atreides
(Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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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