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Tidbit: Brett Leatherman, the FBI's top cyber official, just said the federal crisis response group stood up in response to the PRC Salt Typhoon hacks remains active.
Leatherman also said there is "no confirmation they are out," though the FBI believes they are contained.
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See what the ACLU, EFF, and Cape have to say about the FCC's new rule requiring telcos to collect government IDs for every phone line: 404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kil…
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Jun 9
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed SB 338 into law, making the state the third to ban the sale of precise geolocation data. The law takes effect July 1 and covers data that pinpoints a user within a 1,750-foot radius.
🔗 Full Story: bit.ly/4dJdyfA
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Jun 9
SCOTUS heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case over geofence warrants, which let police demand location data on every device in an area with no specific suspect. A outright ban is unlikely, but some limits may follow. Decision expected early summer.
🔗 Full story: nyti.ms/4nWncyE
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A Florida woman's phone went silent. Minutes later, someone had used her number to reset passwords and drain her accounts--a textbook SIM swap attack.
🔗 Read the full story: foxnews.com/tech/sim-swap-sc…
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Google's reCAPTCHA now requires Play Services to pass verification, which means de-Googled phones like GrapheneOS fail by default.
Choosing a privacy-first OS shouldn't mean getting locked out. These alternatives should be accommodated, not penalized.
🔗 Read the full story: bit.ly/4urTtj3
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Jun 3
EPIC audited 38 major data companies and found opt-out forms are deliberately built to fail.
What if opt-out was the default? At Cape, it is. We don't collect your data to begin with.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4dI6b81
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Jun 2
With ~$200 of hardware and a few silent calls, an attacker can confirm your location using standard 4G/5G protocol behavior.
Cape's IMSI rotation shifts your paging timeslot regularly, cutting off tracking at the network level.
Read the full post: bit.ly/4x33i9i
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"Price lock" language is used by carriers to convince you to stay, but most price locks don't cover taxes, fees, and surcharges.
At Cape, the price you see is the price you pay. We absorb all taxes and fees, so you know what you're paying each month.
🔗 Read the breakdown: bit.ly/4tZHauB
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May 29
We're excited to announce our support for Surveillance Watch, who is mapping the global surveillance industry so the rest of us can understand it, and @KagiHQ, a user-funded search platform with no ads or tracking, and free for Cape subscribers for 3 months.
Read more: cape.co/blog/on-building-a-b…
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May 28
Ad-based search optimizes for engagement, not accuracy. @KagiHQ flips the model: user-funded, no ads, no tracking. Just results.
We're proud to partner with Kagi to provide all #Cape subscribers with Kagi Pro free for three months.
Learn more: cape.co/blog/on-building-a-b…
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The surveillance industry is vast and deliberately opaque. Surveillance Watch maps out the companies involved, and their connections and reach, so the rest of us can see what we're actually up against.
We're proud to support their work.
Learn more: cape.co/blog/on-building-a-b…
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SVDG & @JPMorgan’s 2026 NatSec100 report is now live! A thread (1/13)
This year’s report reflects a defense ecosystem that’s matured from early experimentation to real-world adoption.
SVDG believes that too much of the signal still comes from proxies like fundraising, valuation, branding, media attention, etc. While those indicators, in many ways, have helped catalyze the ecosystem, they’re incomplete in a market where adoption can now be observed with greater fidelity.
Defense is uniquely difficult to evaluate – sales cycles are long and uneven & there’s no clean equivalent of ARR like most venture categories. There is no silver bullet for evaluating the operational impact of national security companies, and we do not pretend this report solves that challenge. But when outcomes in this sector shape national security, human life, and the preservation of democratic values, improving the signal set is extremely important.
For the first time (in partnership with @Pryzm_Dynamics), this year’s NatSec100 incorporates gov contracting data alongside traditional indicators. We also raised the bar for inclusion: eligible companies must have secured at least one US government contract as of December 31, 2025.
The goal is not to discount capital or narrative, but to move toward a more rigorous understanding of which companies are actually on a viable path to deployment.
Full 2026 NatSec100 report here: natsec100.org
Some key findings below:
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The Supreme Court is deciding if the FCC can fine carriers for selling user location data. Ten years after selling customer data, enforcement remains uncertain.
No matter how SCOTUS rules, at #Cape, we believe cellular networks should be private by design.
🔗 Full Story: bit.ly/4ulXLJi
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A period tracking app secretly shared users' reproductive health data with Meta to build and profit from ad profiles. Big tech isn't the only one doing this. Your carrier knows where you sleep, who you call, and where you go. Learn more: bit.ly/42kWCWg
🔗 Full Story: bit.ly/4tra6e7
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Researchers identified a hack-for-hire group that targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa via phishing to access iCloud backups and Signal accounts, and deployed Android spyware to take over devices.
Full story: tcrn.ch/4u0FwZV
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Another excellent report by @citizenlab documenting surveillance vendors using the global telecom system to track and spy on people, without ever hacking a phone, employing spyware, or phishing for credentials.
🔗 Full report: citizenlab.ca/research/uncov…
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"These vulnerabilities are not the result of software bugs or network misconfigurations; rather, they are inherent to global telecommunications design and business practices... Unlike conventional cyber campaigns, telecom-level surveillance is almost entirely invisible to the broader security community."
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The House passed a 10-day FISA 702 extension this morning, sending it to the Senate ahead of Monday's deadline.
At #Cape, we're not waiting for policy reform. We believe privacy and public safety can coexist, so we built our law enforcement policy around minimal data collection, 1-day call log deletion, and notifying subscribers before responding to any legal request.
Read our law enforcement policy: cape.co/blog/cape-law-enforc…
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#Cape was featured in Times Square this morning on the Nasdaq Tower to celebrate our Series C announcement!
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