At Cape, we believe that private and secure communications are essential to free expression and civil liberties. That’s why we launched a program to actively support those contributing to a free society, including journalists, activists, and other high-risk individuals, by offering them free access to secure Cape cellular service.
Even the most careful users routinely leak highly sensitive metadata like real-time location and their closest contacts, because traditional cellular networks have fundamental "blind spots" that enable persistent tracking.
Cape’s secure service is designed to help journalists and activists protect themselves from this tracking, as well as other threats like SIM Swaps, Signaling Attacks, and more.
Learn how the service works: EFF and Cape Partner to Offer Free Ultra-Secure Cell Service (Cybernews)
To ensure this program reaches the individuals who need it most, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is serving as an independent partner to Cape to help review and vet applicants.
If you are a journalist, activist, or organization working to uphold civil liberties and require enhanced mobile security, we encourage you to apply.
Learn more about the program and eligibility: https://www.cape.co/journalists-and-activists
Other Security News
- Global Surveillance Empire Exposed by Lighthouse Reports: A major investigative collaboration, Surveillance Secrets, led by Lighthouse Reports, revealed how a company (First Wap) exploited security gaps in the global SS7 telecom network to covertly track thousands of individuals—including journalists, diplomats, and activists—in over 160 countries.
- WIRED Questions the US Surveillance State: A new episode of WIRED’s Incognito Mode examines the extent of surveillance in the United States and asks if it has become a surveillance state. The episode suggests that the US, while possessing immense surveillance capabilities, maintains certain checks and balances, though the line between state surveillance and private "surveillance economy" is blurring.
- WhatsApp Flaw Exposed Billions of Phone Numbers: Researchers discovered a simple but significant privacy flaw in WhatsApp's contact discovery feature. By automating the system, the researchers were able to identify 3.5 billion phone numbers associated with WhatsApp accounts. For many users, they also scraped public data like profile photos and "About" texts, highlighting a major weakness that could be exploited to create large-scale "reverse phone books."
- Twitter Hacker Ordered to Repay $5.3M in Bitcoin: The hacker behind the infamous 2020 Twitter hack, which compromised the accounts of high-profile figures including Barack Obama and Jeff Bezos, has been ordered to repay $5.3 million in Bitcoin.
- Cellebrite Internal Call Leaks Phone Unlocking Details: An unauthorized person reportedly snuck into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams call and subsequently leaked sensitive, proprietary details about the company’s phone unlocking and extraction methods to the public.
