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NSA Hacks SIM Cards
1. • The GCHQ is Britain’s NSA.
• Your phone’s SIM card contains a secret encryption key.
• Your carrier/provider also has that same encryption key.
• To connect, your SIM and provider check that they keys match.
• If they do, all communication between them is encrypted.
• Carriers like Verizon, AT&T do not make their own SIM cards.
• Gemalto is one of the world’s largest makers of SIM cards.
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NSA/GCHQ stole millions of SIM cards’ encryption keys
NSA HACKS SIM CARDS
• The NSA/GCHQ hacked into Gemalto’s computer network.
• They stole millions of SIM card encryption keys.
• This lets them access communications without a wiretap.