A Letter from Our CEO, John Doyle

November 21st, 2024

Today we’re opening Cape to private citizens with elevated threat profiles: high-net-worth individuals, journalists, survivors of domestic abuse, public figures, and anyone else who is worried about sophisticated technical surveillance via their cell phone.

For two and a half years, we’ve been building alongside a defense and national security audience who deal most acutely with vulnerabilities in mobile networks as part of their daily jobs. During that time, awareness of the problems we’re solving has spiked. A top US cybersecurity official declared that Americans are getting tracked and spied on via “SS7” vulnerabilities, a popular YouTuber demonstrated this type of attack to millions of viewers, and the Salt Typhoon story involving the compromise of President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance’s phones continues to develop (for the worse) as I type this.

We always intended to take our learnings, streamline them, and offer them to a broader consumer audience in early 2025. But along the way, former national security customers who joined the private sector as security consultants requested access to our ultra-secure offering, which they’d seen while still in government.

There is no reason to limit these protections to only government customers. We’re proud to expand access to Cape today, bringing premium cellular service to private citizens who need it most.

Cape subscribers will enjoy full control of the commonly static identifiers that are typically used to track mobile phones as they move around the world, decoupling the phone’s identifiers from the identity of the user. Subscribers will get first-of-its-kind protection from malicious signaling and SS7 attacks, and benefit from SIM swap protection that removes humans (including Cape employees) from the loop entirely, offering peace of mind against social engineering. And our cloud-first mobile core and minimal trust protocols harden Cape against the insider threat and lax cybersecurity that has plagued all of the major carriers in recent years. We’ll be releasing details on each of these features (and more) in the coming weeks.

If you face elevated threats, reach out to us today–we’re ready to support you. For all other privacy-minded individuals, we remain committed to bringing you a connection without compromise via a secure mobile solution in 2025. Sign up on our waitlist to be the first to know.

~ John