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Is this the world's most PRIVATE phone that can not be tracked? | Liron Segev | YouTubeToText
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This content introduces a new mobile carrier, Cape, that offers advanced privacy and security features by preventing data collection and enabling users to control their digital identity, thereby combating pervasive tracking and SIM swap fraud.
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It's impossible to track someone if they
keep changing who they are at every
location. And that's exactly what this
phone does. Sell me providers,
organizations, and hackers use three
elements to build your digital profile
and track you. They use the ad ID, which
is how advertisers track your activity.
They use the IMEI number, which is a set
of 15 character numbers that identifies
the type of phone that you have. And
they use the ISY number. Now, this is a
unique number that is used by the
cellular providers and it's used to
authenticate your device to be able to
use their network. But watch what you
can do with this phone, right? You fire
up the Cape app on the phone and it
looks pretty blank because the first
thing we want to do is create a persona.
Now, a persona is essentially a profile
and to each profile, you can actually
allocate its own unique information. So
in this case, I'm going to choose an MZY
number for this profile. And I'm going
to choose an IMEI number, which is
essentially what is this going to
pretend to be? An LG V20 as an example.
And then I'm going to allocate it an
advertising ID. So whenever this profile
is used, this is the information that
people are going to be able to
technically track. Now let's go add
another profile, another persona. This
one is going to call it meeting. And
again, I'm allocating MZ, IMEI, and an
AD ID. Now I have two profiles on my
device. And that means I can rotate
between the profiles. If anybody's
tracking me on the one location, as soon
as I rotate, well, basically I'm a new
person. But it gets even better. Let me
create another profile called airports.
And now what I do is I go to the geo
fencing. And this is where it gets
ridiculously cool. I can choose any
place on a map. I can choose a polygon
or a circle here. This is the DFW
airport. I'm going to click into it. I'm
going to then draw my circle, give it a
diameter in miles. How many miles around
the airport? In this case, it's 2.5
miles. And what I do is I'm going to
assign it a persona. So, I'm going to
click on that. I'm going to choose my
airport persona, which remember it's got
a new MC, a new IMEI number, and a new
ad ID. Then I'm just going to simply
give it a name, something I'll recognize
for later on. DFW airport as an example,
and I click on the save button and
confirm it. So if somebody's tracking my
location as soon as I hit within the 2.5
mile radius of the DFW airport, I'll
automatically get a new MC number, a new
IMEI number, and a new ad ID. So I'm
going to be seen as a completely
different person and no longer be able
to get tracked. And I can repeat this
multiple times creating multiple geol
locations based on where I'm going and
what I'm doing. Okay, but how do we know
that it actually works and just doesn't
show you pretty graphics on the screen?
Well, there's actually a way to test it.
So, here I have my persistent persona,
which is basically the one that I use
constantly. I can go to my phone
information and then you can see the
IMEI number is 9519 and the MZY number
ends in 2623.
Now, let's go back to the Cape app.
Let's switch the persona and let it kind
of reset and rotate. And then let's go
back to the phone information. You can
see there we go. IMEI number has been
updated to 6792 and the MZY number is
now 2853. So, it works. This is some
next level anti-tracking privacy stuff.
This device is specifically made for
those in governments or those in
high-profile individuals who may be
targeted or under surveillance. But
let's be honest, that is not 95% of us.
So, how do we get something that is
close to this level of protection? Well,
the company that provides this device is
called Cape and they built an entire
mobile carrier that prioritizes privacy
and security. and they're also the
sponsors of today's video. They do not
collect your data and they don't sell it
unlike other providers. Even on their
website where it normally has a cookie
notification, it says this website
doesn't use cookies because we mean it
when we say we track less. And this is
what they mean. Right. This is the Cape
app on a regular Android phone or an iOS
phone. I'm using an Android version of
this. And the first thing it tells me is
look, this is what it's going to cost.
This is unlimited privacy, enhanced
signal protection, SIM swap protection,
anonymous signup, and cancel at any
time. So, I'm going to choose a new
phone number and I'm going to be able to
select where do I want that phone number
to be. And in my case, I'm going to
choose New York. And then I can choose
an area code. And it gives me obviously
only the New York-based codes. Okay,
let's move on. And now I want to read
the terms and condition. And no, it's
not a 9,000page document. is pretty
clear that you can see we will never
sell your personal data to any third
party. You can cancel at any time.
Transparent about data collections etc.
So I click on pay now. I obviously enter
my credit card details and now I'm ready
to activate my cape services. Now the
next screen is it you will see a 24
words on the next page. This is the
recovery passphrase. Let me show you
what that's about. I have here 24
different words. Obviously, I'm blurring
them out because this is super important
for the safety of my account, but there
is 24 words in here. And on the next
screen, it basically wants to make sure
that you've written them down. So, you
got to play this little game of putting
the right words in the right spot
because everything revolves around this
passphrase. Once you go through that,
you're ready to activate your ESIM and
you're ready to use the service. So,
what just happened? Well, the first
thing you would have noticed was that 24
keywords. This is where the real magic
comes in. Cape has built their own
mobile cloudnative core which is like
the central nervous system of a network.
The core controls everything and manages
all the complexity of connecting people
moving across the networks across nodes
across operators and across countries.
And since the entire system was built
with security first and implemented by
expert vetted cryptography and security
protocols, it means it's a secure
system. Even their internal processes
are encrypted. So that unique 24 words
is actually your passphrase. It's the
only way for you to verify your account
and ensures that nobody can hack into
your account or steal your phone number.
But we'll get on to that shortly. Think
of it like a password manager. Only you
know the master password to unlock your
password manager and see your passwords.
Even the company that provides the
password manager services cannot access
your own password. It is that secure.
Same thing here. If you want to move
your Cape account from one phone to
another, as an example, only you can do
it by knowing your passphrase. If you
lose that passphrase, you cannot get
Cape to reset it or issue a new one. And
why is this super important? Because it
prevents one of the biggest issues when
it comes to fraud and scams, which is
SIM swaps. Look, as much as the networks
are trying to stop cyber criminals from
getting their hands on your phone number
to get your one-time PIN from your bank
and to take over your phone calls. We
know that cyber criminals are literally
sending out text messages to staff
working at cellular companies offering
them up to $300 to do a SIM swap. So, we
have seen a massive rise in SIM swap
attacks. In fact, the FBI has dealt with
millions and millions of dollars worth
of losses due to SIM swaps. In 2021,
that number of losses jumped to $68
million. And in 2022, losses total
nearly $73 million. So this is a big
issue with Cape. Even if the cyber
criminals offered their staff buckets
and buckets of money to do a SIM swap,
they simply cannot. The entire system is
designed so that only you can do it with
that 24word passphrase. Now the second
thing that you would have noticed when
we set up the Cape service is that you
can position your phone to be in any
state. So that gives you an additional
layer of location protection as the
phone number that you hand out doesn't
tie back in to where you actually live.
And the third thing that you would have
noticed is that we didn't have to sign
up with our home address, nor did we
have to use our ID or even an email
address. The only info we completed,
which of course I didn't show on camera,
was filling in my credit card
information. But even that isn't stored
with Cape. They use stripe tokenization
process intentionally splitting the
customer data between their payment
gateway and the Cape internal business
system. This is critical. Currently,
when we all sign up with our current
cellular provider, we had to give them a
whole bunch of information including a
government issue ID, our home address,
email, and a whole bunch of other
personal information just to get that
SIM card activated. So now we have to
trust that that provider will keep all
our info safe and secure, which they do,
right? Well, uh, they try. They keep
getting hacked and leaking our data
repeatedly. I mean, look at this. AT&T
got hit in March of 2024, which affected
7.6 million users and about 65.4 million
former customers when sensitive data was
leaked onto the dark web. And then they
got hit again in the same year in July,
a couple of months later, where data
from 109 million customer accounts
containing records of calls and text was
illegally downloaded to a third-party
cloud platform. And then in October of
2024, a couple of months later, AT&T was
one of at least eight major US cellular
providers that were targeted by Chinese
hackers identified as Salt Typhoon. 2024
was not a good year for AT&T. But it's
not just AT&T either. February of 2024,
Verizon had an internal breach where
somebody from their staff gained access
to a file containing a whole bunch of
sensitive information. In October same
year, the Verizon pushto talk platform
was actually breached and there were
incidents at T-Mobile and incidents at a
whole bunch of other providers too. So
whilst these carriers are trying to
protect our data
clearly there are issues with Cape the
data collection is limited only to what
is necessary to provide its service.
Cape does not use data to profile its
users and it doesn't sell user data.
Unlike other mobile carriers who may
sell and pull client data making it a
major part of their business model. Want
to see just how much data is collected
and sold by these providers? Check this
out. Now, if this doesn't piss you off,
I don't know what will. Look at just how
much data is being collected about us
all the time. Look at the level of
detail that is currently happening. And
of course, you can pause this video and
you can look at each category. I'm also
going to link to this in the description
below so you can check it out for
yourself. But this is the kind of stuff
that really really pisses me off because
we don't know that it's happening and
yet it certainly does and it's been sold
all the time. I mean, it's so bad that
the FCC actually find Verizon, T-Mobile,
and AT&T $200 million for sharing
customer location data. But wait, there
is more. We're only getting started. And
this is why I love working with Cape.
Cape doesn't sell your data as it
doesn't collect it. It's impossible to
do a SIM swap without knowing your 24
passphrase. So, what about a network
level attack? I mean, what is Cape doing
so that hackers cannot intercept your
phone calls or your text messages like
what happened here with Lionus? This is
Lionus from Lionus Tech Tips and we
hacked the phone network in order to spy
on him. We intercepted his phone calls
and stole his two factor passcodes. This
new protocol was called signaling system
number 7 or SS7 for short and it's still
broadly in use today, but it may not be
as secure as people thought. What's
crazy is that we exploited these
vulnerabilities and I'm just a YouTuber,
but I'm surprised at how easy it all is.
Now, imagine if I had the backing of a
government. Now, I'm going to have a
link to the video below. It's definitely
worth checking out. You see, we have to
remember that cellular providers grew
over years by buying out smaller
companies and integrating their
technology. As an example, T-Mobile
bought Sprint and Metro PCS and more
recently they bought Mint Mobile. So,
they had to deal with all that legacy
tech and make it all kind of work
together. But what's exciting is what
Cape has done to mitigate against this
is remove the legacy 2G and 3G
architecture. So the footprint is much
much smaller. They also have another
method which can ensure that your phone
is indeed in the right country. So if a
rogue connection tries to capture your
phone calls or your text messages from
another country, it simply won't be
allowed on their network. Now to be very
very clear, Cape doesn't protect you at
the phone level. In other words, it
cannot stop apps that you install from
leaking your data. If you purposefully
downloaded some cracked software that is
full of malware that steals your
information from your phone, don't blame
Cape. I It's just like you cannot blame
your internet service provider if you
got hit by ransomware because you
ignored the anti virus and now your
system is pretty screwed. But I will say
that Cape does give you an additional
layer of protection because it rotates
your IP address and heavily restricts
what is shown to others when you land on
their web page or interact with their
ads. So I'm using my T-Mobile at the
moment. You can see here's my IP
address. My location is Dallas and my
service provider is T-Mo. Now I'm
swapping over to the Cape services and
I'm going to rerun that website and
reload it. You can see the IP address
has changed, the location has changed,
and so has the internet service
provider. So, there's some protection.
So, knowing all of this, should you
switch over to Cape? Well, we can all
agree that this lack of control over our
own privacy and our own data has kind of
gotten out of hand. Yes, we can change
our email to use a secure email system.
Yes, we can use pass keys. Yes, we can
use a privacy browser. And yes, we can
install Graffine OS, but all of those
things are on the device. Up until now,
we didn't have an option for a privacy
focused cellular provider. So, we lost
all control the second our phones
connect to the nearest tower. And all of
that has now changed thanks to Cape. I
have been using Cape service for over a
month now, and I have not dropped a call
once, nor have I lost data connectivity
at any time. From a pure user point of
view, it's like having any other
cellular provider, but with the benefits
of having it all based around privacy,
no data collected or sold. And because
of that passphrase, nobody can do a SIM
swap behind my back. So, if you also
want this level of privacy and control,
I have a link in the description, and
you're welcome to check and verify
everything that I've showed you. And
whilst you're at it, please stop apps
from leaking your data. Check out how to
do that right over here. And if you want
to know about the worst cellular hack in
US history and why Cape is the perfect
solution, check this video out right
over here. Give the video a quick like
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