Putting a security PIN on my SIM

[shimspring]

There was a similar thread here, but the solution doesn't directly address the question. It is more of a workaround that doesn't address my concerns.

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Getting-Started/Locked-SIM-card/m-p/224555/highlight/...

You can put a PIN on your SIM card so that when you boot your phone you cannot access any services or data on the SIM til the PIN is entered. To create such a security PIN I need the default PIN for Public Mobile SIM's.

Please tell me the default PIN.

Thank you.

[srlawren]

@shimspring interesting. Do people regularly have physical access to your phone where this is a concern?  I get secure by default, but this seems like overkill.  And actually, at a pre-paid service like Public Mobile, it's even less necessary.  Why?  Well, if someone gets your SIM card, they can't wrack up a bunch of long distance charges because it's prepaid.  They can't wrack up a bunch of data overages because it's prepaid.  And does anyone actually store data on their SIM cards in 2018?  

[shimspring]

I default to security. But to put a couple of reasons why it is a good idea... Without a lock, somebody could take my sim and use it in their phone making charges, even if they cannot unlock my phone. It protects any data on the sim card. Its a way to veryify that it is the same sim and has not been replaced with a simiar malicious card. But it is more about the X factor, I would prefer to be protected whatever comes, and sending a signal that I am a hard target and an attacker should go mess with somebody else.

[popping]

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@srlawren wrote:

@shimspring so, just out of curiosity, why do you want to secure your SIM card?  Do you also have your phone secured with a pin/password/fingerprint?  You can set your phone itself to require PIN on boot up without PIN-locking the SIM card.  

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Password/PIN/fingerprint on the phone will not prevent someone taking the SIM out to use it on different phone.

[srlawren]

@shimspring so, just out of curiosity, why do you want to secure your SIM card?  Do you also have your phone secured with a pin/password/fingerprint?  You can set your phone itself to require PIN on boot up without PIN-locking the SIM card.  

[shimspring]

That's it. Thanks.

Then there is another code that I need if I put that one in wrong too many times. I think it is called PIN2. And I forget if it is vendor specific or card specific.

I don't need it at the moment but I would like to have it. Are you any help there?

Edit: it is the PUK that I am thinking of, and it is card specific. I will msg the mods.

[Dunkman · Accepted solution]

@shimspring

I found this thread about default sim code for Public Mobile.  Code 1234?

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Getting-Started/The-default-PIN-for-Public-Mobile-SIM...

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[will13am]

Sounds like overkill.  Phones have password locking features already.