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The secure communications protocol we’ve been developing to upgrade billions of mobile subscribers with a Signal-like network officially has its own name ahead of our white paper release!
Introducing The Bourbon Protocol: a permissionless, multipolar communications protocol for “sipping” that breaks free from legacy SS7/VoLTE and leverages decentralized accounts (DIDs) for users to power end-end encrypted voice, video and messaging with complete interoperability to the legacy telephony network.
Dig into the details with our most recent article🥃👇
medium.com/@3NUMDAO/introduc…
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
It's absurd that in 2026 our phone calls don't run securely over IP with a WhatsApp-style app supporting multiple devices. ☎️📱💻
SIMs routing calls and messages are a 35-year-old relic used to protect a walled garden.
“While we see that there could be potential in capabilities like iPhone Handoff,” the $T replied, “our focus remains on delivering innovations that make life simpler and keep customers connected with confidence.”
via @CNET
9to5mac.com/2026/09/23/att-i…
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
To this day phone numbers still dominate as the most widely used communication identity. Network effects are a hell of a drug.
SMS and calls are HTTP
Unencrypted. Logged. Interceptable. Plaintext on a carrier server like it’s 1998.
We’re building the HTTPS: same number or use an atproto handle 🫨, same plan, E2EE private messenger, builtin spam prevention. The network carries it. Nobody opens it.
Launching soon 👀
SMS and voice calls are HTTP
Unencrypted. Logged. Interceptable. Sitting on a carrier’s server in plaintext like it’s still 1998. Anyone on the path can read them. Your carrier already does. Governments have for decades. There’s no lock. There’s no padlock icon. There’s just hope and a terms-of-service nobody reads.
We’re building the HTTPS
Same phone number. Same plan. End-to-end encrypted private messenger. Your texts and calls stop being postcards and start being sealed envelopes. The network carries the packets. It does not get to open them.
HTTP was fine until it wasn’t. SMS and PSTN are the same story. Upgrade the protocol. Keep the number.
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
Your private messages should belong to you.
Today they belong to whichever app you sent them from and they don't come with you when you leave.
We built encrypted messaging/calls on AT Protocol that works like email: any provider, or your own. Nothing in the middle can read it.
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
We've been talking a lot about satellite, Wi-Fi, cell towers...🛰️🛜📡
Phones need to switch between these networks smoothly. Not just because it's frustrating when a call drops, but also because smooth handoffs between networks are critical during emergencies.
That's what "interoperability" means for 911 emergency services in the United States.
The @FCC's definition says 911 systems should exchange info "without the need for proprietary interfaces," no matter the equipment, service provider, or jurisdiction. Your 911 call shouldn't get dropped just because of what device, network, or brand you're using.
But that standard mostly covers cellular. Wi-Fi handles indoor connectivity better than cell towers and can pinpoint a caller's location more precisely, yet it's treated as a separate access technology instead of an equal path onto the network.
👉 Any network that can carry a call for help, should be able to.
That's why we filed official comments with the FCC, urging them to define interoperability broadly enough to include all originating network architectures, including Wi-Fi Calling, not just cellular.
One step closer...
blog.boscolo.co/3msvnllic5c2…
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Almost everything on the Internet today uses MLS which is based on TreeKEM. The problem with TreeKEM is that every message involved in managing group membership and the shared encryption key must flow through a central system to order all the messages.
This creates a nasty centralization vector. This is great for rent-seekers, but not everyone else.
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
How do people converse about things that matter?
This exchange is telling. Scott, RFK and Chamath have a well know messaging-capable twitter account, but they connect via SMS using a phone number to carry on the serious conversation.
This why @3numLabs is securing SMS!
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
The only thing missing from Signal is redundancy in the infrastructure. As a centralized service, it is vulnerable to outages like this as well as nation-state censorship.
We need to decentralize Signal. Join @3numLabs effort to build this on top of AT Protocol.
Hi!✌️Personally, I’m not a fan of vibes-based trust. First VERIFY, then trust, is my motto.
Which is why Signal is open source. We want everyone to be able to inspect our code, and our encryption protocol, and see for themselves the lengths we go to to protect your comms and collect as close to no data as possible. Many eyes make secure code, and we are grateful to all of the deep experts who spend their time looking closely at our repos and reporting issues when they find them.
We also don’t think it’s responsible to run critical infrastructure—like Signal—without providing a means of validating its integrity (although sadly, many do). Open source should be the rule, not the exception.
Signal is trusted by the security and hacker community, and hundreds of millions of others, BECAUSE they can examine it, and because on examination, it has shown to be robust, private, and secure–for over a decade.
A lot of major tech platforms also trust the Signal Protocol for the same reason–they’ve scrutinized it, and it’s proven to be robust. Over 3 billion people communicate every day on services that use the Signal Protocol–it’s the gold standard in the industry for a reason, and that reason is that it’s been inspected, and verified, and it has stood the test of time.
So in short, our public code, our tech, and our commitment to robust privacy are what we lead with, not marketing or promises. We don’t ask people to like us, or agree with us. We ask that you check our work, or ask those who you trust to check it, and make your own call. This is the future of tech that we believe in, and we’re proud to do our part to lead by example. ❤️
Check our work here: github.com/signalapp
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
Encryption doesn't help if app developers choose user growth over user privacy & agency!
Encrypted communication protocols must be open so users can exit to a safer app. AT Secure Messaging Service built on AT Protocol is the open WhatsApp alternative.
nytimes.com/2025/09/08/techn…
3NUM.eth🛡 retweeted
We are making progress on this! Built an early prototype on a fork of the Bluesky open source app! You can read more in the comments! 👇
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Our goal @3numLabs is to secure mobile voice and messaging. We started our journey by securing numbers against SIM Swap and relied on messaging rails built by others. None of them did quite what we needed, so we've gone head's down to build our own.
Stay tuned for more soon! 👀