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Kill the SIM Card

1 pointsby deitcherabout 10 years ago

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oplessabout 10 years ago
&#x27;kill the sim card&#x27;, What poppycock.<p>Considering the sim card has a bunch of secrets that identify the sim card to the network more than just a user&#x2F;password, and frankly more secure. I consider this article very naive and poorly researched.<p>The phone network isn&#x27;t comparable with wifi. There&#x27;s complicated handoffs so your phone doesn&#x27;t drop calls&#x2F;network connections between cells. I know the author is in the USA where connection drops appear to be quite common, but in the rest of the world it&#x27;s not.<p>The phone network is old and cranky, I agree with that. I mean, we&#x27;re using a low latency fixed length packet switched system that could barely carry voice and using that to route packets that are variable length and doesn&#x27;t really care about the real time aspect of the phone system.<p><i>headdesk</i>