T-Mobile cellular service - are SIMs clonable these days?

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are SIMs clonable these days?

danny burstein

2005-12-10, 11:48 pm

I may be a couple of hours out of date on this.

A friend (really, not me!) lost his phone a few
days ago. Quickly reported it to both the carrier
and then to the police precinct.

The latter said it was good he had rushed, because they
had just had another customer whose card had been
copied and there were calls from overseas on it
within minutes. Can this be done that routinely?

(Leaving aside the issue that most Omnipoint user IDs
default to only be good in the US and maybe Canada).

Thanks

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corvus187@hotmail.com

2005-12-12, 2:48 am

danny burstein wrote:
> I may be a couple of hours out of date on this.
>
> A friend (really, not me!) lost his phone a few
> days ago. Quickly reported it to both the carrier
> and then to the police precinct.
>
> The latter said it was good he had rushed, because they
> had just had another customer whose card had been
> copied and there were calls from overseas on it
> within minutes. Can this be done that routinely?
>
> (Leaving aside the issue that most Omnipoint user IDs
> default to only be good in the US and maybe Canada).
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> ____________________
____________________
_____________
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
> dannyb@panix.com
> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

excerpt from: http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylx0796.html

Two people in New York are accused of using a digital data interceptor
on their windowsill to steal at least 80,000 cellular phone numbers
within a six-month period from motorists driving by on a Brooklyn
highway. Some of the numbers were then "cloned" into phones for sale.
According to the Secret Service, thieves could get anywhere from $500
to $1,000 for a cloned phone. Marin Independent Journal, 7/3/96, B8.

And if you want one, it's $420,000 for the GSM model.

http://www.spylife.com/digital_interceptor.html

Scott

2005-12-12, 5:48 pm

<corvus187@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> excerpt from: http://www.cyberlaw.com/cylx0796.html
>
> Two people in New York are accused of using a digital data interceptor
> on their windowsill to steal at least 80,000 cellular phone numbers
> within a six-month period from motorists driving by on a Brooklyn
> highway. Some of the numbers were then "cloned" into phones for sale.
> According to the Secret Service, thieves could get anywhere from $500
> to $1,000 for a cloned phone. Marin Independent Journal, 7/3/96, B8.
>
1996? Besides being almost a ten year old article, wouldn't that have been
analog cellular, which was much easier to intercept and clone?

>

corvus187@hotmail.com

2005-12-12, 11:49 pm

Scott wrote:[color=darkred
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> <corvus187@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1134368061.100047.29450@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> 1996? Besides being almost a ten year old article, wouldn't that have been
> analog cellular, which was much easier to intercept and clone?
>
>

The article is old yes, but see the second URL. If they were cloning
analog phones, I think it would have been easier and cheaper to use an
ESN reader.

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