SIM card technology from A-Z (36c3)

Billions of subscribers use SIM cards in their phones. Yet, outside a relatively small circle, information about SIM card technology is not widely known. This talk aims to be an in-depth technical overview. <p>Today, billions of subscribers use SIM cards in their phones. Yet, outside a relatively small circle, information about SIM card technology is not widely known. If at all, people know that once upon a time, they were storing phone books on SIM cards.</p> <p>Every so often there are some IT security news about SIM card vulnerabilities, and SIM card based attacks on subscribers.</p> <p>Let's have a look at SIM card technology during the past almost 30 years and cover topics like <ul> <li>Quick intro to ISO7816 smart cards</li> <li>SIM card hardware, operating system, applications</li> <li>SIM card related specification bodies, industry, processes</li> <li>from SIM to UICC, USIM, ISIM and more</li> <li>SIM toolkit, proactive SIM</li> <li>eSIM</li> </ul> </p> about this event: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2019/Fahrplan/events/10737.html