The correlation is that SIM cards installed in mobile devices are a type of Smart Card, and Java Card operates a programming interface to communicate with the SIM card.

SIM cards in phones are the most common example, but Java Card technology also is used to identify more than 4 million Defense Department employees and 24 million citizens of Taiwan.

Possible remedies to the problem including ensuring SIM cards use state-of-the-art cryptography and also using Java virtual machines that restrict applets’ access to certain information.

There was also a strong trend toward open platform, rather than proprietary, SIM cards. In only 12 months, the mobile communications industry went from a user base of virtually zero Java-compatible ...

As such, and leveraging its footprint in the SIM business with billions of units deployed each year, Java Card is in a strong position to power embedded device security services." The 3.1 release ...

"The ST32-M family complements the ST32 range, targeting classical Java SIM card ICs, and the ST33 family, for the highly secure SIM card market," said Laurent Degauque, Telecom and NFC marketing ...

Gemplus provided “state of the art” technology from the SIM PKI signature application and Java SIM cards (GemXploreTM Xpresso 64K PK) to the transaction gateways (GemConnect OTA and GemConnect On-line ...

SIM cards in phones are the most common example, but Java Card technology also is used to identify more than 4 million Defense Department employees and 24 million citizens of Taiwan.