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why would they tamper with or replace the sim cards? seems like it'd be smarter these days to be more covert about your photojournalism career; might be smart
by debt 10y ago
why would they tamper with or replace the sim cards?
seems like it'd be smarter these days to be more covert about your photojournalism career; might be smart to have a cover.
also standing rock is reaching a boiling point. it's obviously becoming a national security issue if they're stopping people at the border.
- weaksauce 10y agoperhaps to track the phone later? see if there are any contacts on the sim card and cross reference those. replace it with some other chip that does something else?
- jonathankoren 10y ago"Replace" makes it sound like they gave a new one. Of course they didn't. The phone wouldn't work until you contacted your cell provider. If they did indeed take the card out, they probably used to gather the IMSI number and to download any contact information stored on the card itself.
- AtheistOfFail 10y agoYou can clone modern SIM cards to extract the contacts later on or any data that is stored on it (some phones save texts there)