Re:Zero Trust SIM
by comboy on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:37PM
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I feel you, but consider this - we live in alternative reality where eSIM comes first and then somebody comes and says you need to put a black box into your phone (which is btw spinning up whole java environment) if you want to make calls. You could probably get outraged at that too.
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For many of us in the US, that was indeed the case. I had a CDMA phone on Verizon's network until 2007 when I switched to T-Mobile and got a GSM phone.
An eSIM is the same black box, just reconfigurable and soldered on.
I mean so is CPU, but in general it's a bit harder to hide stuff in some untrusted binary than it is in hardware. In general. In this case I think we're doomed regardless.
Btw, if somebody knows good technical writeup on eSIM, I'd love to read it.