On 2016-05-02 00:22, John Andersen wrote:
On May 1, 2016 1:00:39 PM PDT, "Carlos E. R."
wrote: On 2016-05-01 20:12, John Andersen wrote:
On 05/01/2016 05:44 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So you have to enter the pin code for phone service (it protects the SIM card), and the passphrase for the storage. Makes sense.
Almost nobody does that anymore. Its kind of pointless, since most modern phones don't store anything on the sim except tower connection data.
It used to be you could store your phone contacts there, but only 250 bare-bones contacts can be stored on the largest of sims, and phone companies usually supply just the smallest size sim card. 35K.
There's just no point in protecting it these days.
Er... maybe you misunderstood: the "data" I refer to is not data on the SIM, but on the storage card. The PIN protects the SIM; even if no data is stored there, it protects the ability to connect to your phone provider network, because there is a contract with money involved. You could find yourself with the responsibility of having to pay a one thousand dollars/euros bill for phone calls you did not do.
Maybe in your country.
Here, you notify your carrier that the phone was stolen, and they kill your sim instantly. If you subsequently find the phone they give you a new sim for free.
It doesn't have to be stolen. Anybody in your house, say, picks up the phone while it is powered down, switches it on. As it doesn't have a PIN on the SIM, it opens up. He/she places a call to his boy/girl friend that is on a trip abroad; a 5 hours long-distance call. Then switches off the phone. Or worse, he/she calls a sex toll phone (90x, premium-rate telephone number) for hours. Or buys expensive apps. You have to pay the bill. As you have no password (PIN) on the phone, it is your fault entirely. It is the same thing as having a PIN on credit cards. They don't store data. Yes, of course you can block it once you know it has been stolen. So? Depending on the contract or jurisdiction, you are only protected after the report, not before. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)