bsstoner

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by bsstoner 7mo ago
Thanks for trying us out and for the feedback. We are have had some bugs with voicemail that we should have resolved now. And improving the network is our #1 priority this year. Hopefully you'll give us another shot down the road!
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
We don’t operate our own towers and as you point out we can’t control what someone there does. Our privacy and security model is to treat the towers as untrustworthy. This is why we do things like rotate your IMSI daily or split your traffi
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
It depends what your threat model is. Most telco data collection and resale is based on IMSI’s attached to KYC’d customers. If they can’t get personal information and the IMSI looks like it’s a day old, that data is inherently less valuable
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
We receive in cleartext and encrypt with a key controlled by the customer. Most carriers store voicemail and SMS in cleartext on their servers. The goal is reduce exposure while preserving interoperability. This post on encrypted voicemail
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
This is valid feedback and it’s on us to earn trust over time through our actions. I will say that Cape is a company of almost 100 people from many different backgrounds. Prior to Cape I spent almost a decade at DuckDuckGo. We’re a group of
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
We’re working on an audit now. There’s an RFC on Reddit looking for input: https://www.reddit.com/r/CapeCellular/s/zTn7HQ0emo
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
This is good feedback. We don’t want caps and throttling to be a blocker for signing up and using us. Since we’re at a premium price point we should economically be able to be a lot more generous than existing carriers.
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
Appreciate the feedback, we’ll likely experiment with different plans down the road, but for now we’re focused on rolling out as much additional privacy/security value as we can to justify the premium price point.
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
Appreciate the shoutout. We love what Apple is doing in this area. There is a lot of room for them to help improve things at the modem/hardware/OS layer. On the tower question, you’re right, we can’t control what data is collected
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
Details on what the tower sees are at the table in the bottom of this blog post: https://www.cape.co/blog/product-feature-identifier-rotation...
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by bsstoner 7mo ago
Hi -- Head of Product at Cape. This is a good question. I will say up front there is no silver bullet for privacy on cellular networks given the way they were designed to interoperate. Our strategy is to offer many different protections tha
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by bsstoner 8mo ago
Thanks, appreciate the post and questions. On throttling, I can’t share exactly how it works, but we are doing the bare minimum just to curtail runaway abuse. You will most likely not notice. We are exclusively eSIM, and compatible on all i
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by bsstoner 8mo ago
Hi — I’m Head of Product at Cape. We’re excited to launch out of beta. I’m happy to answer any questions people have.
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Cape (privacy focused mobile carrier) now rotates your IMSI every day(cape.co)
7 points by bsstoner 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bsstoner 1y ago
Hi -- I'm Head of Product at Cape (previously led product at DuckDuckGo). We are indeed trying to provide an alternative to all the data collection and sharing major carriers do in the US. Happy to answer any questions people have abou
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by bsstoner 8y ago
Sorry about that, we had a brief issue with our proxy, it should be working properly now.
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by bsstoner 8y ago
DuckDuckGo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142
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Google and Facebook are watching our every move online(cnbc.com)
208 points by bsstoner 9y ago|152 comments
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by bsstoner 9y ago
This was in fact an issue with queries containing quotes on our /lite and /html sites. It should be fixed now. Let me know if you see any other issues. What happened is we frequently get hit by bots trying to scrape the links from
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by bsstoner 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We only return videos from YouTube right now, but expanding that is definitely something we'd like to do in the future.
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by bsstoner 9y ago
Thanks, these are helpful. Is it mostly searches with quoted words? brian@duckduckgo.com
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by bsstoner 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work for DDG. I'd be interested in looking into any examples of searches where the results aren't good enough or where it seems to have gotten worse recently. As far as I know there haven't been any changes over
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by bsstoner 12y ago
It actually does use WebRTC in Chrome. It falls back to Flash in FF right now.
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by bsstoner 12y ago
They can both be configured in Settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings
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by bsstoner 12y ago
Try selecting the Classic theme in the side menu. It has blue/purple links, darker description text + full urls.
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by bsstoner 12y ago
We have implemented a bunch of the feedback from the original discussion. Detailed release notes were posted in the forum: https://duck.co/forum/thread/5747/duckduckgo-beta-refinement... https://du
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by bsstoner 12y ago
You can also fine tune the individual colors on the results page in Settings ( https://duckduckgo.com/settings )
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by bsstoner 12y ago
Try adding 'news' to the query: https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=amazon+news
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by bsstoner 13y ago
Awesome! Thanks so much for the kind feedback.
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by bsstoner 13y ago
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