[Tfug] OT: Sim (sp?) card hacking

[Garrett Hoxie]

There have been a couple good talks at Defcon the last few years about cell
phone hacking.  I am not sure if they went into reading SIM cards, but the
speakers seemed to get a lot of their information from www.howardforums.com.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My BinL has been fishing in someone else's pond  :<
> My sister has forwarded the sim card from his old phone
> (blackberry) to me in the hope that I might find
> something "interesting" on it.
>
> Unfortunately, I am absolutely *clueless* about all
> things cellular (I don't *answer* my phone let alone carry
> one *with* me!).
>
> Am I correct in assuming that these are just generic
> "memory cards"?  Perhaps a serial interface to reduce
> pin count and keep package size small/inexpensive?
>
> As such, there is probably little hope of getting anything
> of interest off the card without the original phone in
> which it was installed (or at least the same *model* phone)?
> I.e., I would think it comparable to picking up an arbitrary
> floppy disk written on some particular piece of hardware
> and trying to read it on some *other* piece of hardware
> without knowledge of how the file system was structured, etc.
>
> (assuming the data isn't *encrypted* as well!)
>
> <frown>
>
> Any pointers as to how I can proceed or should I just tell
> her to subpoena his phone records?
>
> Thanks!
> --don
>
>
>
>
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