ExtremeTech: It took a long time — more than 20 years, to be exact — but the humble SIM card that sits within your phone, and seven billion others, has finally been hacked. Of the seven billion modern SIM cards in circulation, hundreds of millions are estimated to be susceptible. The hacks allow a would-be attacker to infect your SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages, or records your phone calls — and, in some cases, access the secure, sandboxed details stored on your SIM by mobile payment apps, giving a hacker access to your bank and credit card details.
Clickfarms are a dubious business people rarely get a peek inside of, but accept as part of our everyday internet existence.
Quite profitable, even major media outlets here in the states have been caught buying clicks.
Tourists visiting Thailand in future face being issued with location-tracking SIM cards.
Why don't they just go all in and give everyone a ankle bracelet monitors, like they do with criminals...
Unless that sim card has free unlimited data, texting and calls, they can pretty much go fuck themselves.
Your point is completely invalid since no one would be visiting their country if start giving out ankle bracelet monitors to everyone just like they do with the criminals. Well you see, Tourists are supposed to be treated with some respect especially if you are Thailand because then you have to deal with the fact that tourists actually contributes a large percent towards your country's economy.
Hope I make it clear to you now, why they cannot give a ankle bracelet monitor to everyone.
The day the physical SIM card disappears is slowly getting closer. Last year, we heard that Samsung, Apple, and various mobile carriers were working to create a new standard for embedded or eSIMs (programmable SIMs that allow you to switch carriers without swapping the physical card in your device).
