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Cloaked manages your logins with proxy emails, phone numbers and a built-in password manager

techcrunch.com Cloaked manages your logins with proxy emails, phone numbers and a built-in password manager | TechCrunch

Privacy and security startup Cloaked launched its apps today to let users create unique proxy emails, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Cloaked manages your logins with proxy emails, phone numbers and a built-in password manager

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Nothing is open source and my days of choosing to trust companies upfront are long gone.
- Yeah, there's plenty of open source alternatives to what they offer, that are just as good or even better in most cases. Wouldn't bother with these folks imo.

The company said that it is working on zero-knowledge architecture so the master password users use to unlock their Cloaked profile never hits the startup’s servers.!
Lol. That should be there on launch. Thanks but no thanks. I'm not trusting a company with all my passwords and other secrets. Especially when it's based in the us where companies generally don't give a shit about privacy.

Proprietary, targeting users who want to be anonymous, centralizes faux identities and passwords, provides plaintext SMS services..
It looks like a fed, and it smells like a fed..

It's actually a cool idea. Integrating phone numbers, integrating emails, makes a lot of sense.
Closed source, not zero knowledge, not giving people ability to run their own domains, not letting people use their own phone numbers ( like a twilio API key). Really limits the utility of this. If they ever go out of business, you're screwed.
Good idea, waiting for someone to graph this on to bitwarden, accepting twilio keys, and custom domains
- Proton pass, take note , the phone thingy is promising

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Boston-based privacy and security startup Cloaked, launched its apps today to let users create unique proxy emails, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.
Clocked, founded by brothers Arjun and Abhijay Bhatnagar in 2020, allows users to create “identities” consisting of usernames, passwords, email addresses, and phone numbers.
People can use these identities for different categories of websites such as e-commerce, social media, and newsletters, where they can avoid giving up their actual details.
Additionally, Cloaked will let you autofill different forms online through various identities you have stored including one-time passwords sent to the service’s inbox.
The company said this feature is available only on a limited number of sites and users are in full control of it in terms of activating or deactivating Auto Cloacked.
The company said that it is working on zero-knowledge architecture so the master password users use to unlock their Cloaked profile never hits the startup’s servers.
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