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+It has been brought to the attention of the Supreme Revolutionary Command that
+the official custodians of ISO/IEC 7816 specs refuse to freely publish their
+documents, forcing technical users in need of these specs to locate them on
+unofficial "pirate" sites instead of an official authoritative source.
+Furthermore, the most active hacker community experts on the subject matter of
+SIM cards - almost all of whom work under the umbrella of Osmocom - are being
+cowardly in that they refuse to join the International Union of Lawbreakers, and
+they say nonsense like "you have to pay for those specs" instead of pointing
+users at some chosen-as-official pirate site for downloadable copies.
+
+To remedy this situation, we (FreeCalypso/IFCTF) have posted known-good PDF
+copies of ISO/IEC 7816-3 and 7816-4 specs on our own FTP site.  You can download
+them here:
+
+Anonymous FTP server: ftp.freecalypso.org
+Directory: /pub/GSM/ISO7816
+Downloadable files: ISO_7816-3_2006.pdf and ISO_7816-4_2005.pdf
+
+Note the absense of URL notation: in keeping with the principles of Holy
+retrocomputing, please use a traditional command line FTP client, such as the
+original Berkeley UNIX command line program called simply 'ftp'.