Rooting SIM Cards

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Smartphones are susceptible to malware and carriers have enabled NSA snooping, but the prevailing wisdom has it there's still one part of your mobile phone that remains safe and un-hackable: your SIM card (http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/07/21/sim-cards-have-finally-been-hacked-and-the-flaw-could-affect-millions-of-phones/). Yet after three years of research, German cryptographer Karsten Nohl claims to have finally found encryption and software flaws that could affect millions of SIM cards (https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/), and open up another route on mobile phones for surveillance and fraud.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/07/21/2035227/rooting-sim-cards