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More on this little computer: http://www.gemalto.com/techno/sim/

Wow, thanks!

And on the Gemalto sim-card hack by the NSA and GCHQ: https://theintercept.com/2015/02/25/gemalto-doesnt-know-does...

"In the secret documents, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the intelligence agencies described a successful effort to obtain secret encryption keys used to protect hundreds of millions of mobile devices across the globe."

I think in the 90s.

Check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Integrated_Circuit_C...

They have always had CPUs. Just like most other types of ISO7816 cards, including any that have any kind of pin protection for the data stored within.