The Great SIM Heist How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle

It's a lot easier to eavesdrop on calls and view contacts, dates, times, gps locations etc. when you have the encryption key then trying to break the encryption.

I'm sure it will get dismissed because everyone thinks their phones are secure now that apple and google have default encryption on their phones.

The stolen keys allow the agencies to clone phones.

In other words, if your SIM card is cloned, they've got a virtual copy of your phone. When your phone rings, their clone rings. When you get a text message, they get the message. All data traffic is cloned. Ungarbled, unencrypted, plain.

Funny thing. The biggest phone operator here dismissed the entire scandal by "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear".

In other words, it's as if they think that it's perfectly OK to have all your communication susceptible to surveillance.

I think I'm going to change my operator...

Newt Gingrich might be interested in this story. I doubt his calls back in the 90s were randomly intercepted by Clinton supporters.

I smell fear in these words. You have done wrong!

[link to firstlook.org (secure)]

Finally a story everyone *should* be paranoid about, with true conspiracy and global consequences, and no one cares.

It'd be terribly funny, if it weren't so sad.

Why isn't this pinned again?

Last Edited by 74444 on 02/20/2015 12:44 PM

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... may it be that the heist be exposed in such a way that the user revolt ...
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