The Great SIM Heist : How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
Jeremy Scahill & Josh Begley The Intercept Another mildly mind-boggling espionage exploit unveiled. American and British spies cracked the encryption used in mobile phone networks around the world by a simple piece of direct action. No maths involved. They hacked the factories that made the SIM cards for the phone companies. “The pipeline for producing…