Verizon's VoLTE network is missing IPsec protection on SIP signaling, leaving users potentially exposed to call interception and spoofing. Verizon promised a fix, then said the requirements weren't actually mandatory, and went quiet.
Full story: https://t.co/fcOr0qsaAo
The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's fines against Verizon and AT&T for selling customer location data to third parties.
The conduct happened nearly a decade ago. Enforcement just now finished. That's how long accountability takes in telecom.
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Telcos run on 3% R&D, compared to tech companies' 16%. Telcos are just spectrum holding companies, collecting rent on that spectrum by outsourcing infrastructure to a fleet of vendors.
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The UK proposed new telecom security rules in response to Salt Typhoon. Carriers lobbied against them. Independent signaling detection, service account hardening, and more were all dropped or delayed
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In May, Verizon's CEO proposed moving beyond 4 customer segments to thousands. Some call this "segmentation." We call it “using your data to figure out the max you'll pay and charging you exactly that.”
Read more: https://t.co/ooBTNhEbAz
We've submitted opposing comments to the proposed FCC rule requiring an ID and address for every phone in the US. The goal of the rule is to stop spammers, but having carriers run an ID registry is not the solution.
Read our comments: https://t.co/phfcIXXGnD
The Pentagon has confirmed adversaries are using commercially purchased location data to target US troops in the Middle East.
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AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers on request.
Cape's secondary numbers help keep your primary out of the data pools that feed these models.
Read the full story: https://t.co/MzJXdEjc14
Mobile phishing has surpassed email as the top social engineering threat, with users 40% more likely to engage with a malicious link on mobile than via email.
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Privacy has always depended on friction in the time/effort it takes to connect scattered data points to a real person. LLMs may be eliminating that friction entirely.
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Cape commissioned @HarrisPoll to survey 2,000+ Americans on mobile privacy. The results reveal that despite a rise in secure communications channels like encrypted chat apps, Americans still use phone calls and texts for sensitive interactions, without understanding the full extent cell networks are vulnerable.
🔗Read the full findings → https://t.co/hkv84ZTMHN
Thank you to Founder Brew for featuring our CEO John Doyle alongside other veteran founders on the lessons military life brings to building a company.
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Cape CEO John Doyle joined Crossing the Valley to talk about building a privacy-first carrier from scratch, from our $5M seed that became $50M to go live, to how we're becoming America's answer to Huawei.
Full episode: https://t.co/P9uvHF0v4F
@CapeCellular founder John Doyle on this week's Crossing the Valley:
- first check from @a16z American Dynamism fund
- how to secure comms on CCP-compromised cell towers
- what caught @USNavy CTO / @DONPEODigital Justin Fanelli's attention and led to big time scale
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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.
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: https://t.co/tCjawRxDqO
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: https://t.co/XXRDc2Cvan
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: https://t.co/WZbmP4x1Tk
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: https://t.co/vuMSxJ5J8W