What's inside of a SIM card?

[FoxyProxy]

Putting it in a microwave oven on high for ten seconds did not faze it. Phone still works. :Q

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: FoxyProxy
Putting it in a microwave oven on high for ten seconds did not faze it. Phone still works. :Q

Try a full three minutes. And no it probably would not survive a nuclear attack.

 

[InlineFour]

put it in there for 5 minutes.

 

[middlehead]

I'm more curious about why microwaving a phone sounded like a good plan.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: middlehead
I'm more curious about why microwaving a phone sounded like a good plan.

 

[everman]

Enough radiation would cause bits to flip rendering some data useless. I don't think microwave radiation is a small enough wavelength to cause this though. However it might melt...

 

[UglyCasanova]

My phone went through the washer and dryer, and although the phone died I was still able to take the SIM card out and use it in my next phone with all the numbers still there.

 

[imported_Trippin315]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: middlehead
I'm more curious about why microwaving a phone sounded like a good plan.

 

[InlineFour]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
My phone went through the washer and dryer, and although the phone died I was still able to take the SIM card out and use it in my next phone with all the numbers still there.

you save your numbers in your SIM card? i find it lacking in featuers so i save my numbers in my phone's memory.

 

[CrazyDe1]

Most likely an 8051 microcontroller

 

[JM Aggie08]

Put my friends old nokia in my microwave for about 5 seconds. lets just say i was out for a new phone and microwave

 

[tbike06]

Originally posted by: Trippin315

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: middlehead
I'm more curious about why microwaving a phone sounded like a good plan.

and my sim card just died randomly.

 

[ForumMaster]

i doubt it. it's probally a form of flash memory. that nuclear radiation would destroy that data and the explosion would destroy anything that's left. but if you could explain why you decided to try microwaveing a SIM card, we'd all be interested to know.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Big difference from a nuke and a microwave. That's why it's legal to own microwaves.....

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: InlineFour

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova
My phone went through the washer and dryer, and although the phone died I was still able to take the SIM card out and use it in my next phone with all the numbers still there.

you save your numbers in your SIM card? i find it lacking in featuers so i save my numbers in my phone's memory.

I guess? I thought that was the whole point of them (and I just use whatever it was defaulted as). Anywho, saved me huge headaches before so yeah SIM card it is!

 

[JDrake]

lol why?

 

[Fraggable]

If I were to need to dispose of a SIM card with confidential information on it, the microwave would not be the first place I would turn to.

Maybe a pair of scissors?

 

[CalvinHobbs]

you wanna dispose of a sim card, well put it on a hard surface and hit it with a hammer and it's dead forever, it contains programmable IC ,EEPROM etc,

 

[FoxyProxy]

I'm not talking about ionizing radiation or heat from a blast. I'm talking about the electromagnetic pulse. A phone will die very fast in a microwave. A sim card did not. Even tried elevating it, orienting it with putty, you name it. It gets warm so a longer run time would just melt it. The EMP would destroy the phone but not the SIM. I find that very interesting. Most electronic things will spark heavily from strong irradiation at 2450 MHz from the magnetron. Apparently the wires inside the card are a length that doesn't produce this activity. It could be the particular card too. Who knows?

And btw you can put all kinds of things in an oven without fear of blowing it up. I've dried leathers before but you have to be careful if you have rhinestones or other metal things as the arcing will probably catch it on fire.

 

[Eli]

I've opened one up before, it was some little chip protected by a bead of epoxy.

 

[Looney]

You don't ask why... you ask why not!