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		eli on April 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old Ph... But that was only because you had physical access to the original SIM, no? You couldn't mount this attack "over the air" against a stranger.

laut on April 22, 2009 [–]

The only reason you would need the physical original SIM card is to get the numbers you need to make the SIM clone. (IIRC)

I think that the phone companies have all the keys you need. Of course they don't just give them out to anyone who asks.

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