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You have clearly missed my point either by design or accident. The IMSI, ADN etc or any other of the masses of information that is contained on the SIM has simply never been relevant to the matters I've been involved in. It's not complicated just the way the world works. I'm assuming that you are not LE nor ex LE? Apologies if you are but the way you are approaching this suggests an academic background.
A bad guy has child porn on his phone which he is sending via text to other sickos. I find the messages (incoming or outgoing) that show this, the information is confirmed by the telco call records, end of case. We put it to court based on good positive evidence. 99.99% of the time based on that the bad guy pleads guilty. Why oh why when I have a huge workload with hundreds of phones/computers/GPS devices all waiting for examination, would I bother delving into the SIM card and trying to find evidence of god knows what when I don't need to? If the bad guy with his lawyer comes up with some red herring defence about SIM cloning or something like that we then would revisit and attempt to rebut what ever they had come up with.
You clearly have in depth knowledge of SIM forensics which I don't have so I bow to your superior knowledge. I did not mean to imply that your time and effort to acquire this knowledge was somehow not important or relevant.
I will state again that my examining thousands of phones does not mean I have experience in SIM forensics, whilst phones use SIM cards the two are very different and I have never delved into SIM cards much, and I can't over state this enoughbecause I have never had the need.
I certainly have no interest in an e-fight or test of knowledge but will say once again and finally that SIM cards very rarely contain any information relevent to criminal or to other matters in my experience. If I came across that one in a million case where the SIM contained something buried in it that was relevant at that point I would either seek assistance or begin research and testing to find out the intricacies which I clearly don't understand at this point.
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