Ban on phone hacking means that cops don't know what bad guys can do
India's prohibition on researching phone-hacking means that only terrorists and crooks get to know how this stuff works, while the cops sit around scratching their asses, muttering, "How'd they do that?"
Police had no idea that one SIM card could be used simultaneously from two handsets before the detention of Nazir Ahmed for interrogation. Nazir was picked up from Morigaon after an SMS from his mobile number in the name of ISF-IM claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts in Assam...The cloning requires extracting the Ki (the secret code inside the SIM) and IMEI from the original card. It would take up to three days to extract the Ki and the IMEI from the original SIM card through the programmes offered by the sites. The experts said no one has actually done any research on SIM card cloning because the activity is illegal in the country.
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Yeah that would be not doing your job. Bank vaults can't improve if you don't try to think of ways they can be broken into.
Idiots.
"However, experts from IIT-Guwahati said on condition of anonymity that a lot of tools to clone SIM cards were easily available on the Internet. "One has to be technically well versed with the programmes and must have access to the SIM card that he wants to clone. We, however, have not heard of remote access to SIM card details," an expert said.
The cloning requires extracting the Ki (the secret code inside the SIM) and IMEI from the original card. It would take up to three days to extract the Ki and the IMEI from the original SIM card through the programmes offered by the sites. The experts said no one has actually done any research on SIM card cloning because the activity is illegal in the country."
Except its _impossible_ to clone SIM cards other than Comp128V1, and NO ONE is issuing those any longer, they were recalled good 5-8 years ago.
And I though I was clever by calling every hour on the hour to get some BS ringtone charge removed.