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Citizen Engineer Releases A Comic All About SIM Hacking (and Tosses In A SIM Reader For Good Measure)

By Adrian Covert on July 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Phil Torrone and Limor Freid of Adafruit Industries have a video project called Citizen Engineer, where they aim to educate and entertain when it comes to various aspects of open source hacking. Now they’ve released a comic to go with it.
The inaugural book essentially mimics the video, but also happens to come complete with functioning QR code trickery and a SIM reader that you can use for fun (maybe profit?). The set costs $US35 (purchasable here), but if you like, you can also print it out yourself. The downside is that you might not get the same, high quality look and you definitely won’t get a SIM reader. But then again you save $US35. [Citizen Engineer]

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  • rt100 Penn State
    July 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM
    @Con Seannery: well yeah, but not before some punk kid goes and messes everything up for everyone! actually, it's usually punk kids who find the wholes in the first place....
  • mfusion
    July 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM
    @ladyada: haven't seen you around these parts for a while. great work! keep it going and here's a little heart icon for you.
  • smartboydan is banned from Deads
    July 10, 2009 at 12:22 PM

    It's not like most hacking procedures haven't already been boiled down to nothing but a bunch of prompts. Most people know to set up wifi networks on WPA/WPA2 now thanks to such programs.

    This does lead me to wonder though, is CDMA more secure than GSM?

  • Con Seannery
    July 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM
    This is actually a pretty good idea...making security holes common knowledge makes the holes get filled.

    Con Seannery

  • smartboydan is banned from Deads
    July 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM
    @Poison_Shroom: There are plenty of those already. I believe we call them script kiddies.
  • lostarchitect
    July 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM
    @Xterm11: i think that's the general idea behind this type of thing.
  • ladyada
    July 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM
    My name is spelled Fried thanks!
  • Xterm11_is Rhyming
    July 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM
    Why would you want the general public to know how to hack? Would it promote more electronic security?

    Xterm11_is Rhyming

  • Poison_Shroom
    July 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM
    Pretty cool idea. Sad that some 11 year old is going to think he's a hacker now.

    Poison_Shroom

  • Leonce
    July 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM
    Oh, this is just awesome. I may get me one of these.

    Leonce

  • Worf
    July 11, 2009 at 5:59 AM
    So, can I find it at my local comic shop?

    Worf

  • nasa geek
    July 11, 2009 at 4:21 AM
    @Con Seannery: Yeah it kind of follows the whole Metasploit concept
  • Paul Beardfacé
    July 13, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    @ladyada: I also think you're great :-)

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