<p dir="ltr">Hi all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks joe for pointing out this article to the list [0]. I don't want to turn this list into only long discussion about news we see. But one disturbing trend is that these nice folks stole the IMSI / Ki keys of a frightening amount of SIM cards. While the standard defense is that this is needed to go after "bad guys", at this point the IMSIs are unassigned and not even in the carriers hands. Further, the Ki can be used to decrypt any future and previous GSM traffic. (Combine this with BOUNDLESSINFORMANT or STELLARWIND and you have a historical wiretap).</p>
<p dir="ltr">But no we shouldn't be assume cell phones are secure anyways.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tl;Dr install signal or text secure or redphone. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Related: the signal team needs help translating and reviewing strings for signal 2.0 (the iOS build with TextSecure!) [1]</p>
<p dir="ltr">[0] <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/</a><br>
[1] <a href="https://t.co/fMCmGr8uQw">https://t.co/fMCmGr8uQw</a></p>