Recently tried to install an American prepaid SIM card on my unlocked iPhone. H20Wireless. Main sales demographic: Chinese immigrants and Europeans visiting American.
Phone blocked the APN profiles the company required to be downloaded for service to work.
Called customer service. They texted me a link to download them directly.
Told me to override iPhone's suggestion to not install them.
Curious, I did.
3 profiles were downloaded, all of which said they'd be monitoring my information.
Here's the scary part:
One was by a German firm called "Giesecke + Devrient".
G+D got their start by printing Bibles. It then printed money for hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. After the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Third Reich, it printed the tickets for the Olympics in Nazi Germany. G+D intentionally caused hyperinflation and the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy.
Today, G+D is the largest bank note printer in the world. It prints most bank notes in Europe. And it just recently contracted with the Federal Reserve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giesecke%2BDevrient
https://www.gi-de.com/
This company seems to have their hands in everything today, from automation to AI to identity cards.
Why are they installing spyware on our phones?
Any time I call customer service and ask they play stupid or just hang up. No one wants to answer this.
The link to the APN profile downloader to test it out yourself: https://telrite.smarttrust.com/sp/iphone?k=6KkVVU