how to erase a sim card

[carbonmotion]

if i had to erase a sim card mighty quick without a phone, how would i go about doing it? i know magnets won't work...

 

[SpookTheHamster]

Fire. Scissors. Hammer/chisel.

 

[eb6]

Sounds like an emergency...burn it.

Cellphone Store would maybe do it for you.

Why the need?

 

[carbonmotion]

kind of a emergency, cant really talk about it

so like is there any way to erase the data without destroying the card physically?

 

[Maxiseller]

No real way unless you can insert a sharp blade to damage the chip, but frankly it would probably be visable, and with even minor investigation would show tamper.

 

[®îçhå®?]

There is no way without a phone. Why dont you want to use a phone for it??

 

[skoker]

In the words of Mythbuster™ Adam Savage:

Eight-hundred gauss man, what are you, nuts?

but I hear napalm works just as well.

Or you could always vomit on it.

 

[Mal]

I'm curious... what reason would you have for such a thing? I mean, the only reason I can think of is if you stole a phone with the SIM card in it and didn't want it to be traced when you stuck it in the phone to erase it.

Can someone enlighten me as to a legal and reasonable explanation? I'm stuck.

jW

 

[Fearless Leader]

eat it, throw it into the sun, or a fire. the first two might prove difficult. How do you know a magnet won't work? A strong enough magnet should destroy it.

 

[n-abounds]

You can't just electrocute it? I guess that makes sense if magnets don't work, but then again I'm not an expert on electro-magnetics.

 

[CanadaRAM]

Never tried it, but because it is not a magnetic storage medium, I would guess you'd need a frackin huge magnetic field to induce enough current to make a difference. I would be tempted to take a 9V battery, clip test leads on it, and then randomly pass the current though each of the different pairs of contacts on the card. That otta scr#w something up.

Darn, those address books full of 1-900 numbers are a nuisance, aren't they?

 

[Mammoth]

You can't do this fast, but you might be able to get a SIM to USB adapter or one of those SIM backup things..

 

[krimson]

if i had to erase a sim card mighty quick without a phone, how would i go about doing it? i know magnets won't work...

car battery, jumper cables, rubber gloves, videocamera.

 

[Warbrain]

car battery, jumper cables, rubber gloves, videocamera.

Sounds like some extremely kinky porno...

 

[n-abounds]

Sounds like some extremely kinky porno...

Or Guantanamo.