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Article mentions "credit card java applets on SIM cards". I've never used one of those, and I know nobody in the western world who does. I always presumed that
by Zoepfli 13y ago
Article mentions "credit card java applets on SIM cards". I've never used one of those, and I know nobody in the western world who does.
I always presumed that these sim java applets are crapware that is mercifully hidden on todays smartphones.
It's also my impression that Mastercard and Visa paid a hefty stupidity tax by thinking in the 2000s that it would be important to have their software on SIM cards, not foreseeing that smartphone apps would just bypass that whole layer.
Anybody know of an application in the western world, on smart phones, where these java applets are really used?
- dobbsbob 13y agoPretty sure Blackberry does in Canada, and I assume everywhere else that their Mastercard payment NFC (paypass) works. They touted it as being extra "secure" due to being on the SIM instead of the phone. No idea if carriers selling Bold and Curve handsets are using DES SIMs vuln to this.
- codebutler 13y agoYes, ISIS uses SIM applets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(mobile_payment_system) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(mobile_payment_system) Google Wallet uses the same type of applets but stored in the phone's SE rather than the SIM card.
- e12e 13y agoI know Telenor in Norway provides a service called BankID that is tied to Telenor SIM cards -- but I don't know anything about the implementation details (or how they've managed to lock the other providers out of the game). BankID is a centralized service for authentication used by banks, and the "other" implementation is based on a (browser) java applet.