Happy to see a privacy-focused carrier, and it has better policies than any other carrier out there. But founder is formerly from Palantir and there’s a lot of VC money behind it (not inherently a problem, just flagging).

Thoughts?

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    https://cyberscoop.com/cape-phone-privacy-calea-tracking/

    Good article which points to a few promising aspects. They seem to have their own phones (as of Nov 24) as part of this. Second, that their market is “high risk” individuals. So people with money, it sounds like. If the pricing reflects a market for governments, celebs, and crypto bros trying to not get SIM swap attacked, then it’s not likely a honeypot for Feds. Maybe.

    I hate the idea of only being allowed to use their phones, but that might just be their “easy mode” for idiot celebrities or government contracts. If they can give me a physical SIM, I’m interested.

    I would not be an early adopter. Hang and see who isn’t a plant that joins.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      The feds have already pulled a similar stunt with another manufacturer+software combo. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield#Distribution_and_usage)

      The only thing that makes this smell legit is the fact that it is a provider and probably only eSIMs. But even then, this is not very good opsec to be deliberately using a marketed product that will likely have an identifier for their cell traffic. Graphene works as well as it does because it runs of pre-existing hardware to be more inconspicuous.

      • guismo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        they contracted with the AFP to run the first node of the server and process the data. (Australian law does not provide the same protections as U.S. law for its citizens.)

        Thanks for that link. I didn’t know that. We are below the US in privacy laws! Is there any first world country worst than Australia?

        They said all users were criminals, but who knows what they are calling a crime, specially with the retarded laws down here…

        It shows what I suspected, that Australian software and servers must be avoided even more than Americans.