[Om2009] PIN & PUK

[Al Johnson]

On Monday 08 June 2009, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 12:15 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, David Fokkema<dfokkema at ileos.nl> wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > Getting a bit too confident, I decided to change the PIN (default 0000)
> > > of my SIM.
> > >
> > > 1. Paroli doesn't require you to re-enter the PIN, to make sure you
> > > made no typo's.
> > >
> > > 2. Paroli doesn't give feedback on incorrect old PIN values, so you
> > > don't really know for sure the PIN was actually changed.
> > >
> > > 3. On startup, unlocking the phone with your PIN is not very verbose.
> > > An incorrect PIN results in another 'enter your PIN' screen, but
> > > nothing like 'PIN incorrect, only 2 tries left'.
> > >
> > > 4. When the SIM is blocked (incorrect PIN) nothing shows in Paroli. It
> > > doesn't tell you that the SIM is blocked and that you now need to enter
> > > your PUK code. Having already tried a few times, I asked a colleague
> > > for his unlocked phone to really make sure I wouldn't block the SIM by
> > > entering incorrect PUK codes.
> > >
> > > So, does anyone dare reproducing this, ;-) ?
> >
> > Thank you David for sharing your experience! I don't think we'll soon
> > find anyone ready to test this (maybe with old SIM cards..). Could you
> > please report all this to http://www.paroli-project.org/trac so it
> > will not get lost in the mail archives. I think this is something
> > quite important to be fixed..
>
> I might try a few times. Apparently, as long as you're not entering an
> incorrect PUK code ten times, all is well. Of course, an unlocked phone
> nearby is necessary to the whole procedure.

Why? You can just use mdbus to enter the PUK and set the PIN:

http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.html;hb=HEAD#Unlock