Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M

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@fria

scam android phones

SilentCircle vibes. Had a dream team (ex iPhone execs, leading cryptographers and security researchers) and it went … silent no where.

Nowadays you see that with (former) well-funded, well-known cryptocurrency orgs & businesses (very capable teams) pivoting into privacy tech (ex: VPNs as they are profitable) or AI (because hype).

@fria

Seems everyone’s getting in on that grift

PG’s seen it & been bitten by it, may be will one day be wiser for it…

Remove Strongbox

I suspect unfortunately many people still won’t back me up that funding/business models do matter and are directly relevant to privacy, as we’ve seen with Skiff, as we’ve seen with Simple Mobile Tools, as we’ve seen with Wire, etc. Hopefully someday we will be prepared to discuss and acknowledge that non-technical criteria are both needed, and probably more important in many cases than the technical criteria we impose. Anyways, now that it has actually happened, it seems there’s no choice but …