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\n\nAre we all getting a little wiser when it comes to our mobile security? Sure, fingerprint scanning and password lock screens are a start but those aren't the real challenges when it comes to protecting your identity from prying eyes. Much of what is shared is given away once you have already passed your security checkpoints. I'm talking about the price we all pay in order to use mobile applications: Our Facebook credentials and those of our extended social network, our email addresses, our phone numbers, our kids names and even our credit card and banking information.

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\n\nProtecting this information should be important to us all. We don't offer it up on our business cards, we don't give it away to strangers, we don't put it on our mailboxes yet, for some reason, we readily give it away to apps that ask us for that permission - often without a thought.

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\n\nToday's guest is trying to help secure our app world. His name is Alec Main and he is the co-founder of an Ottawa, Canada based company called Graphite Software. Graphite focuses on creating isolated "spaces" that control different personas of permissions - think of it as a sandbox for your apps. Trusted apps go in one, work apps in another and temporary (or "not-as-trusted") apps can go in another. You get the point.

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\n\nAlec and his team have a deep-rooted pedigree in security with a previous exit under their belt and are now focusing on a consumer story in an emerging field. Giving control of identity and security to the mobile user is a must for our industry to flourish unfettered. We dive into the state of acceptance for this kind of software, the commercial potential for "branded" spaces of curated content and temporary apps and how they were able to land their first customers.

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\n\nFull show notes can be found here: http://untether.tv/2014/ep-502-the-secure-space-just-beyond-the-limit-of-app-trust-with-graphite-co-founder-alec-main/