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

[johngalt1]

Most people who talk about SIM card hacking mean duplicating 
a SIM card to "get unauthorized service".

Consideration of the Wikipedia article notwithstanding, from 
what I've seen it's not real common to put contacts or 
messages on a SIM unless you are trying to copy them from 
one phone to another.

If you're still interested in messing around with a SIM, 
there are low cost USB interface devices available from the 
cheap ship-to-you-from-hong-kong asian hardware sources. one 
such example is http://www.dealextreme.com/ YMMV

I agree with the poster who suggested howardforums. 
Nevertheless, I have not seen much hacking stuff there 
besides doing subsidy-code unlocking...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bexley Hall" <bexley401 at yahoo.com>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: [Tfug] OT: Sim (sp?) card hacking


> 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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