The great SIM heist: How spies stole the keys to the encryption castle

The great SIM heist: How spies stole the keys to the encryption castle

Using documents provided by Edward Snowden, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley explain how the National Security Agency and its British counterpart hacked into the computers of the world’s largest Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card manufacturer in the world to steal the encryption keys used to secure mobile to mobile communications.