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Guaranteed human.

So, yeah, let's do logistics.

Could I have you introduce yourself?

My name's Jackery Sider.

I'm the host of the podcast,

Darknet Diaries. If you haven't heard of the Darknet Diaries podcast, let me explain the background

a little bit here. So every episode, they get into some real wild story that's usually about

hackers. And that might be why Jack is so cautious about revealing his identity, because he

knows what's out there. So maybe we should address the elephant on the screen here for those

of you watching. I'm an anonymous podcaster. I don't like showing myself my face or anything

like that. So I'm using a filter to keep my privacy. When I cover enough of these hacks, when I hear about breach after breach after breach,

I think to myself, well, I guess all my data's out there, there's nothing I could do.

And I become blackpilled, I suppose, where I just feel completely hopeless about privacy.

But then I realized, no, who's the ding-dong who gave them my data?

It was me. So in order to

protect myself from being in breach after breach, I just stopped giving my data to anyone who asked

for it. And that's why after seven, 10 years of doing a podcast about hacking, this is where I've

landed on being an extreme privacy advocate. And that's why I don't like to show my face anywhere. And if you think about what your ex-lover knew about you when you were in the height of your relationship, they knew everything. They knew your password. They knew your photo. They do everywhere you went every day. But that was years ago. You've broken up with them. And now they don't know anything about what you're up to, right? And so there's still hope I'm recovering your privacy and getting it back.

So I'm totally white-filled now.

I have a lot of optimism about my privacy.

I love how we're starting this out like that because I feel like we're going to go there, right?

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