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Don't sim cards have PIN authentication enabled by default?
by ajsnigrutin 3y ago
Don't sim cards have PIN authentication enabled by default?
- gruez 3y agoNearly every sim I've seen don't have one set by default, and I can't imagine the average smartphone user digging through their smartphone settings to add one.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoInteresting... i usually buy prepaid sim cards outside of EU (due to "fuck-you" roaming prices), and every time I bought one, in multiple countries, I had to scratch off the silver "paint" to get to the random pin written on the sim card (the large plastic part, the one that you break of the mini/micro/nano sim from).
- andrewl-hn 3y agoYes, but as I moved between countries and bought SIM cards from many carriers all carrier employees offered me to disable the pin "for convenience". Let's say your phone died, and you put it on a charger. A phone would eventually turn itself back on, but if your sim is locked you. wouldn't be able to accept incoming calls until you unlock the phone and unlock the phone. Without a sim pin once your phone turns on you become available again. People like that. Also, even if you want to keep the pin on many people would set it to something convenient like 1111 or 9999. In fact, one of the carriers I used had 1111 s a default pin code for all their SIM cards. So, while security is there in theory, in practice it's rarely in place.