There is this carrier I stumbled upon called Cape, calls itself America’s privacy first carrier.
It claims to offer privacy and security and to only store necessary information.
We don’t collect your name, social security number, address, or other personal information. Any data we do receive (like call logs) is deleted after 60 days.
We secure your account against SIM swaps—attacks to steal your phone number and access your accounts—with modern cryptography protocols.
Our proprietary signaling protection blocks attempts by bad actors to intercept calls and SMS via outdated signaling protocols like SS7.
Voicemails can hold sensitive information like 2FA codes. Cape encrypts your voicemails so only you have access to them.
We don’t collect your name or billing address at checkout, and Cape never sees your credit card details.
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They are also partnered with Proton
Here is a detailed list of what data they collect
They are currently offering a $1.50 trial for one month.
The CEO, John Doyle, was a communications specialist in the U.S. Army and worked for Palantir.
Thoughts?
Looks interesting, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of them and I’m wary about the CEOs ties to palantir and the fact that its a US-based company. I’ll wait for others to do some deeper research into the company first.
Signal is also US-based and Cape is literally a carrier with coverage only in America. I found one of there employees that previously worked 9 years with DuckDuckGo and is now working with Cape.
I’m not judging them on their claims, but their cost compared to other MVNOs is insane. The extra features they add do not seem worth the $99 they want to charge.
Sadly privacy is costly. It’s the only option compared to the others
collect your name, social security number, address, or other personal information.
At least where I live there are laws to collect this info. Is it not regulated in Murica?
We secure your account against SIM swaps…with modern cryptography protocols.
This just dosent make ANY sense. Sim swaps are done via social engeneering.
proprietary signaling protection
If they wanted to be private, it would be Open source.
Voicemails can hold sensitive information like 2FA codes.
Since when do people send 2fa codes via voicemail? The fuck? Just use signal.
U.S. Army and worked for Palantir.
Me smell honey
Also, they DO collect your Credit card data. Not they themselves, but Stripe. So Stripe knows every detail about you.
The coverage is only in America, I guess it doesn’t need to be collected over there
They use Digital Signatures instead of usernames and passwords. Cape employees don’t port out numbers and only you can with a 24 word seedphrase you can read more about it here so I guess they are more secure compared to others.
This has to be a joke, what do you mean “just use signal” and “open source” ???
Stripe handles the actual card details, while Cape only receives the token, which cannot be mapped to your real credit card number. Stripe generates a token that is stored on cape’s systems to confirm a payment has been made. Cape does not store your credit card number. Cape does not associate tokens to subscribers
Why do we need a Sim and number , its just a way for government to keep control and manipulate.
Time to promote a simless future.✊
Also the IMEI irrevocably attached to every cellular modem. Can’t rotate it like a MAC address either without breaking a law or two.
They have a special option called Obscura but it is only available via contact
One of Cape Obscura’s key features is identifier rotation. By regularly changing the identifiers your phone transmits—like IMSI, IMEI, and AdID—Cape makes it nearly impossible for trackers or malicious actors to follow your digital footprint. Source
how do esims work? can I transfer it between devices in seconds?
Major anom vibes.
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They’re blocking my VPN connection… I’ve already got problems with this lol.
I like what they’re doing in terms of the anonymity when signing up, but 100/month is kinda high. Maybe in the future when they release cheaper plans (ie no unlimited internet call/text) and they get subpoenad a couple times I’ll switch over
Overall pretty cool
pretty sure calyx has somthing simmilar and id trust them more https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet
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Major difference, as this is a carrier.
