[Commotion-dev] Fwd: Opensource SDK for SIM hacking

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Just poked them on two points:

1. We have written a new open-source SMS compressor that is at least as
good if not better than the commercial options, and they were asking about
compression technologies.
2. I have suggested they remove the phone-home "feature".

Paul.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

>  I'm throwing this out to the Commotion list to see if anyone has any
> familiarity with this project. I just saw it posted on LibTech. Several of
> the goals of the project align with goals of Commotion, especially around
> our OpenBTS work. It's particularly interesting that they are focused on
> making this an accessible tool for general users, and that it runs on
> Windows.
>
> This page mentions a pilot program they did in Uganda using the software,
> using SIM cards to discreetly share information:
> https://github.com/abayima/opensimkit
>
> One thing that does make me hesitate though, is that their software
> "phones home" to their servers to let them (and their funders) know who is
> using the software and where:
> http://dev.opensimkit.com/index.php/User_Guide
>
> Dan
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [liberationtech] Opensource
> SDK for SIM hacking  Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:47:59 -0500  From: Jon
> Gosier <jon at abayima.com> <jon at abayima.com>  Reply-To: liberationtech
> <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu> <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>  To:
> liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
>
> Hey all,
>
>  Thought I would share our Open SIM Kit (http://opensimkit.com) project
> with the list.  The project aims to be an open source SDK of sorts for
> hacking SIM cards. In practice, this allows users to modify the contents of
> SIM cards. The goals of the project:
>
>    - To offer a GUI for programing SIMs (instead of doing it from the
>    command line in C++ and AT);
>    - Storing/sharing information discreetly in scenarios where other
>    communication might be monitored;
>    - Modifying SIM cards to do things they currently cannot (special
>    apps, work on ad-hock networks etc.);
>    - Adding apps and other information that isn't provided by Mobile
>    carriers;
>    - Publishing content ways that can reach populations where other
>    communications might be scarce and unreliable but mobile feature phones are
>    not;
>    - Making all this easy enough that non-technical people (Civil Groups,
>    Activists, Journalists, NGOs etc.) can do it;
>    - With the ultimate end goal of providing a completely decentralized
>    means of communicating (instead of through mobile carriers).
>
>  You can find the code on Github at http://github.com/abayima/opensimkit.
> We especially invite developers with expertise in machine programming,
> compression, and encryption.
>
>  Developer Wiki - http://dev.opensimkit.com
>
>  --
> Jon Gosier
>  Founder, Abayima
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