> Anyone who suspects they might be a person of interest can always just request a new one from their carrier.
I doubt SIMs are manufactured just-in-time for each individual customer; more likely, carriers order batches of hundreds/thousands/millions SIMs. Without a recall program, it will take years before you can be confident that your freshly-acquired SIM is not compromised.
I'd say it's safe to assume that from now on, any cellphone communication can be trivially intercepted by NSA/GCHQ. The most paranoid already assumed that, but now we have confirmation.
I doubt SIMs are manufactured just-in-time for each individual customer; more likely, carriers order batches of hundreds/thousands/millions SIMs. Without a recall program, it will take years before you can be confident that your freshly-acquired SIM is not compromised.
I'd say it's safe to assume that from now on, any cellphone communication can be trivially intercepted by NSA/GCHQ. The most paranoid already assumed that, but now we have confirmation.