As a pleb, it doesn’t sound that groundbreaking to me and feels a bit deceptive.

Lots of carriers now allow you to lock your sim from transfers, and many logins allow you to use an authenticator app rather than phone number.

The largest benefit would be if they could maintain privacy, but from the info on their website, it doesn’t seem much better than any other carrier. Even if they don’t collect and store private data, they are no doubt using one of the big wireless carriers network which still has the ability to track every device connected to it.

I could be very wrong one either of these points, if so someone please correct me, but as I see it this is just an overpriced cell service with slightly higher sim swap protection.

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the difference is that a sim lock at another provider is still a speed bump. groups like lapsus$ have been straight up paying insiders as much as $20k a week to do sim swaps on accounts. the lock doesn't present an issue

Our carrier partner doesn't see our customer data and we don't care if you're jane smith, or satoshi nakamoto #84.

lastly we have plans for further improvements, eventually pushing all traffic over a full mixnet (both user data traffic and and voice. this will defend against all location tracking. we have some interim hacks but only things that don't actually make you more of a target.

hint: swapping imei and imsi repeatedly while in the same location is like trying to be subtle while you've got a full marching band following you