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Joyce Petrowski.
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Welcome back, everybody. I'm Joyce Petrowski, founder and board president
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to join on there, and we've got a lot of
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great content there as well. Let's see. We've got a
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guest today, David Hawkins. He was with us, gosh, it's
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already September, probably four months ago. We talked about some
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artificial intelligence and a lot of different things related to that.
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But he is going to, he's with a company now, Cloaked,
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and we're going to learn all about what they can
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do to help protect us. So let's welcome David.
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Well, hello. Hey, Dave. I'm glad to be back.
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Yeah, it's nice to have you back. So tell us
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a little bit about what you're doing now at Cloak.
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Sure. So I had taken a little bit of time
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off like you this summer. And when I came back
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from that, somebody called me and said, hey, you might
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be a good choice for what we're looking for here
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to help out. And Cloaked as a company, what they do,
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they do something that my wife does because she's just
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super suspicious of everything internet. She doesn't put a Devices
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on her mobile phone. I mean, apps on her mobile phone.
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She refuses like she doesn't want anything on there. And
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every time she has an issue with a credit card,
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she rotates. She gets a new credit card constantly. And
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and whenever most people go out and they change their
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password periodically, sometimes. But she does something even worse, which
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is she she deletes the original password and the email
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as well and changes the email. Yeah. She just uses
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different like totally different credentials. And I thought that was
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kind of a smart thing to do as a person.
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She's not a cybersecurity person, but she's just not a
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very trusting person when it comes to the Internet. Yeah.
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And as it turns out, that's exactly what Cloak does.
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So when you use the Cloak product, what you end
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up with is a solution that you start off. And
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this is for people. This is a consumer-based product. It's
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not a big corporate product, although I'm here to help
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with the corporate side of the business. But the way
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this works is everybody has email addresses and passwords that
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go with those. And everybody's got credit cards. You've got
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phone numbers and all of these different things. And they
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all end up being put on these directories that are
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sharing information. Every time you check that box when you
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sign up for a new account, you say, can we
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share this with our partners? And what they end up
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doing is they sell your data to the data brokers.
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And there are a couple of products out there you
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may have heard of that, you know, some of what
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might be considered partly a competitor to Cloaked. Where they
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delete your stuff out there. Yes. They get you deleted
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from all of these different things.
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And then they monitor to see if it comes back
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up and then they delete it. Yeah.
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Yeah. And that's literally what we do. We start out
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with deleting your data that's on the data brokers. Okay.
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And then put you on a continuous constant re-deletion. And
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then the second part is they put you on every
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do not call list that you can get put on
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across the country. So that cuts down your phone span.
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And we're also at this moment working on something to
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get those text messages to stop coming up that shouldn't
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come up. So all of those are the core nature
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of the product. But what Cloak does that is different
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from every other product is we let you actually have
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the same kind of that the hackers have in the
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sense that you can go in and rotate your credentials,
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not just the password, but the usernames, and populate that
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with totally different data, like fake data. And what that
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does is it poisons the web. So all of those
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companies that are taking your data, your real personal data,
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and sharing it, now you're starting to seed them with
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the fake data. data that isn't your data. You still
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get all of the communications. You still get all of it.
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You can use your phone, use your charge card, use
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your email address, and that all stays private and exactly
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the same as normal. Like your Gmail is still your Gmail.
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But to them, you look like, you know, Sally Olive
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at some crazy domain. And it just, it gets rid of,
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it literally not only deletes your data, but prevents them
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to get back in because every time you re-sign up for.
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Something, your information gets out there.
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Right. It's gone out again. Yeah. Right.
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And it's, it's a never ending battle.
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Right.
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I actually just yesterday in a presentation, I had somebody
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ask me, how do we get our information off the internet?
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And I'm like, well, you know, you can do it yourself,
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but you're going to have to, first of all, figure
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out where your information is. You're going to have to
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then go to the privacy policy of all these companies,
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find out what the procedure is to request to have
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your information taken off, go through that process, but then
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you're going to have to follow up and make sure
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that it's being done. And I said, but there's also
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companies out there that will do this for you for
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a subscription, right? So, but that's interesting that you guys
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take it a step further and you actually, I guess
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on the, on the, On the front end, what data
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brokers and what companies see is fake information, like a
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fake username, a fake password, but you're still using your
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legitimate one to log in.
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Just behind the scenes, but to, to like you go
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to Best Buy and if Best Buy has a compromise,
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whatever email address and password you used could potentially now
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be in, in what they call them paste bins in
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some cases.
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Okay.
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It's just a location where all of your credential information
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got put.
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Okay.
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And then once it's there, It's your responsibility, unfortunately, to
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go delete your, you know, you need to go change
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your password. And changing your password is literally only half
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the data that those brokers have. Right. We're giving you
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the ability to change both. And the next time you
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log into Best Buy, you don't use your specific email.
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You use a fake one that we generate, just like
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you generate a password, generate a credential and put it in.
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Okay, so let's say someone's using a password manager. Or
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with some of the older adults, they're writing it down
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and keeping their notebook in a safe, locked place, which
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we always tell them to do. So then they're actually
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recording in their password manager or writing down the fake credentials.
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So when they go to log in, again, they're using
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those fake credentials, right?
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Right. And part of what we do in order to
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make this easy is you could definitely do this manually yourself, right?
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You could go out and create a whole bunch of
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new email addresses. Problem is linking the email addresses back
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to you so that you actually get the messages, right?
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So that email address will be used for the do
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not reply messages that they send. And what we actually
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have in the product is an inbox, right? And so
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that inbox actually receives the email and then it relays
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it down to your personal email, your real email. Okay.
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And so it creates a real inbox, a real email
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behind the scenes inside of our tool.
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And then it's like forwarding to your real address.
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Okay. Exactly.
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So question.
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Question.
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I think I might be missing part of it here.
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When I said that people then use those fake credentials
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to log into that account.
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Right.
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And if a hat, they would use your tool.
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Yeah, because we actually include a password manager.
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To log into their accounts. So what happens, so a
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data broker gets access to that fake information and they're
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selling it. But then wouldn't Wouldn't a scammer or a
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bad actor, even if they had that fake information, wouldn't
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they be able to access someone's account?
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No, because technically you're not using the fake information as
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a login for your personal internal stuff. So you're disconnecting your...
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I'm going to call it an indelible identity. There's a
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part of your identity that's indelible, and that is your
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base root email, right? That's yours. And you're going to
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keep that, and that's your connection to close. And then
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we're going to create this network of... fake credentials that
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you use out in the world. And the vendor, like
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a Best Buy, will see that fake email and the
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fake password. But the communications come back and get sent
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to your personal inbox, your real inbox.
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Okay. So let's say that I go to get into
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my Best Buy online account. I'm still going to use
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whatever username and password I generated. To log into that account.
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The fake one. You're going to use the fake one
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that you generated through Cloaked. And then that entity will
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only have that fake connection. And what's... Let me think of...
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Let me explain something a little bit to help with this. So... Today,
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most people have what's called a one-to-many relationship. And that
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means I'm the one person with my one credential, and
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I use that same email address on every single item
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out there. So it's one-to-many, and many is all of
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the different things you subscribe to. Now, with Cloak, what
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we do is we move you back one step. And
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then do a many-to-many relationship on the front side. On
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the back, you still have the one-to-one connection with all
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of the credentials you create. But for the stuff out
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in the field, they actually get a one-to-one connection. So
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you have one specific credential that only and ever gets
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used with Best Buy. You have another one that gets
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used with Sam's and another one that gets used with Costco.
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And so those become one-to-one relationships. And there's some really
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interesting value that comes out of this. You could give
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a cloaked email, phone number, credit card, all together, because
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we're actually a credit card company as well.
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Okay. So you have the virtual cards?
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Yes, we have a whole virtual package. So that means
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that there's a one-to-one relationship between your cloaked identity and
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this external entity. But all communications, the emails, the phone numbers,
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they call to this one particular number that you gave them.
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And it's a fake number. It's just our fake number
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that we generated for you. And you can set these
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fake credit cards in that process as well. And the
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cool part is if you use this for subscriptions, like
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say it's your Apple subscription to Apple TV, you set
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up Apple TV to Apple TV. Now you've got a
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fake email and a credit card. And once you pin
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it to Apple, you then have a couple of extra
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things you can do on our side, which is I
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pay a $ 20 a month subscription. I will never authorize
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more than $ 20 a month ever. So that means if
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they up their subscription, you don't just like find out
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a year later on your credit card statement that they