Jeremy Scahill and John Begley write:\u00a0 SIM cards were not invented to protect individual communications \u2014 they were designed to do something much simpler: ensure proper billing and prevent fraud, which was pervasive in the early days of cellphones. Soghoian compares the use of encryption keys on SIM cards to the way Social Security numbers are used today. \u201cSocial security numbers were designed in the 1930s to track your contributions to your government pension,\u201d he says. \u201cToday they are used as a quasi national identity number, which was never their intended purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only effective way for individuals to protect themselves from Ki theft-enabled surveillance is to use secure communications software, rather than relying on SIM card-based security. Secure software includes email and other apps that use Transport Layer Security (TLS), the mechanism underlying the secure HTTPS web protocol. The email clients included with Android phones and iPhones support TLS, as do large email providers like Yahoo and Google.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hacking SIM cards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jeremy Scahill and John Begley write:\u00a0 SIM cards were not invented to protect individual communications \u2014 they were designed to do something much simpler: ensure proper billing and prevent fraud, which was pervasive in the early days of cellphones. Soghoian … Continue reading ![\"Hacking](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hacking-Sim-Cards-300x203.jpg\")
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