I recently learned about Cape and am trying them out to see how it works. I’d be interested in any other info or opinions people may have.
They are private by nature. They don’t collect a bunch of info on you to create an account. They aren’t going to sell your data. Its clear it’s not anonymous, but I don’t need that I just need privacy.
Cool features include:
A rotating IMSI number that changes every 24 hours or so.
What they call Network Lock, which basically pings your phone when your IMSI attaches to the network to verify proximity. If it doesn’t match then they deny it. This should prevent SMS interception and sim jacking.
There’s also secondary phone numbers included that handle SMS only, so you can use them for services you don’t want to give your real number to or as a burner number.
Phone numbers are not identified as VoIP so that (stupid) limitation from some services isn’t applicable.
I also like that they seem like a very practical solution. Right now I use JMP for VoIP numbers and buy a data sim separately. I’ve looked at other services and had issues with them. Cape seems very straight forward and simple.
That being said, they are a very new company. Apparently this has been worked on for years but the service just went live in January. That’s my biggest hesitation.
My testing over 2 days has been fine. I haven’t seen anything that is negative or a red flag.
Pricing is mildly expensive overall for a single line. No family plans, which is good from a privacy stance and there’s a referral discount so basically if you use that to sign up multiple accounts it brings the price down like a family plan would. But I’m a single line so I don’t get any of that benefit.
There’s some missing features but none that I really care about. They have a clearly marked out roadmap for the year, so I guess over time we get to see if they stick to it.
What do you guys think?
At first I thought this was the Israeli company run by “ex” Mossad that owns all the VPNs. But after going through the website, the company is called Privacy Inc. and appears to be run by a bunch of rich ex-US intelligence people.
They do a really good job of hiding their staff and company name and physical location, revealing only what’s legally required. That means they at least have the chops to do privacy right… but it always gives me a funny feeling when a company doesn’t stand behind its own brand but instead depends on third party promoters.
And they call themselves a global private telecom, but appear to be very US-focused, with two US locations (but no addresses available).
They certainly have lots of claims and appear to have thought about company structure, but this looks really similar to a Langley shell company to me.