Thread: [Proposal pending] Virtual SIM cards for N900
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2010-05-21 , 22:35
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
You can put your credit card info in a .txt file too, but nobody seems to be too concerned...

Being able to rip sim cards and use images of them in the software would be awesome, but I doubt it's possible. Reading and using the SIM is a hardware/firmware-level thing AFAIK.
data from credit cards in txt files - those are from magnetic strip of the card not the chip itself. there is some info in magnetic strip you could use fraudulently including long card number, this can be used on the internet shops or copied on another magnetic strip of a blank card but can't be used to program a chip on another card. same story as with simcards. security is quite good - i'm not saying impossible to crack, however hardware/firmware to get it done it's not widely available and also time needed to crack the KO code is an issue.