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For anyone else curious, it's described in this affidavit, page 8: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.230...

The KeyChron Discord has seen enough questions that it has many bot autoresponders to explain model differences. I thought the experience of selecting among the many very similar, poorly-named models was a frustrating slog, but it seems unlikely to change given that they sell out their production runs.

As long as you happen to quote it, I forgot a key sentence in my story: I placed my order with the official Keychron store and it was fulfilled by Amazon.

Google thought it had a business model that incentivized them to stay good. The opportunity to sell results didn't go away and eventually they took it.

I took a flyer on this kickstarter and I’m really impressed by the results. It’s a beautiful labor of love. Incredible design and detail.

This site has many long, detailed analyses of Mitchell's scores and conduct for his records in Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Pac-Man. While the DK records are more popular, Mitchell previously owned the perfectpacman.com domain and has made several claims about his Pac-Man scores and whether Namco gave him an additional award. The site includes extensive commentary on his lawsuits with links to filings. It also includes descriptions of financial transactions between Mitchell, Twin Galaxies, and related parties over the years. (Sorry to be vague, I'm not interested in getting sued for attempting to accurately summarize events. It's a shame that Ars Technica, which presumably has a legal budget, doesn't do a better job reporting.)

For an ios example, location sharing is optional but the expectation is becoming that it’s used: https://www.vox.com/culture/23742552/location-sharing-iphone... I was really surprised by this article because I couldn’t imagine this kind of 24/7 surveillance of friends and family. I’ve asked around and it’s becoming the expectation in romantic relationships, and it’s uncommon but not surprising in friendships.

For an offline example, the standardized barcodes on the back of US driver’s licenses are changing how businesses use them. Liquor stores and bars used to briefly use them to check age. The last few years I’ve seen an increasing number that scan the barcode to collect the info. I’ve also visited two gyms and a shipping service that wanted to scan IDs, which is a request I never saw before the REAL ID Act made it easy to collect the data. If you think it’ll stay optional, try to take a US flight without a READ ID-compliant ID, open a US bank account without a social security number, or cross an international border without a passport. Today’s optional is tomorrow’s mandatory.

Compiling personal info from the different apps and making it easy to share is inherently a problem because making that easy changes the expectation and organizations start demanding it. When NameDrop interoperates between ios, Android, and POS systems it’ll become a standard expectation in business interactions. To give two plausible changes where I expect it to quickly become expected: getting in a queue for a table at a busy restaurant, and retail sales predicating refunds or support on it. It’ll be a cheap, minor benefit for the businesses and users have it on and filled in by default. For another example, a half-dozen businesses near me don’t accept cash - you have to use a form of payment that gives up at least your name to the store if you want to buy a donut, have your hair cut, or park your car. None of those services should require personally identifying information, but now it’s mandatory.

I’d like to see ubiquitous data collection put off as long as possible, include little data by default, and not include durable, correlateable identifiers like phone numbers and national ID numbers. That’s not hyperbole about a mustache-twirling dystopian intrusion, it’s one more small integration for NameDrop that’ll start out optional: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212940

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I know this is pure whataboutism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism), but I don't have any duty to keep the secrets of sockpuppeting spammers; the forum privacy policy is short and unambiguous. No members have expressed concerns over me banning his accounts in 2019, in 2020 when he spammed us again, or me talking to 404 Media. As a responsible journalist, Sam Cole asked if I had evidence of his abuse and I pasted from my log, though I redacted the exact IP address.

I save these logs because people who sockpuppet and get banned often try to sneak back on under other names. Some odd quirk of the psychology. I realize saving all logs indefinitely might help in spotting them, but the marginal improvement in accuracy isn’t worth the significantly increased potential for loss in a data breach.

I don't think they ever confirmed that this was why they stopped updating, or did a postmortem on how poorly that launch went. I vaguely recall there was also an unexplained spike in MobileCoin trading shortly before the public launch that looked quite a bit like insider trading, though right now the stories I can turn up about it here are about similarly disconcerting and unexplained issues in its provenance: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's hard to take this fundraising plea seriously when this financial disaster is never even mentioned. I hope I've just missed whatever Signal has done to try to repair trust after the, but the fact that they haven't even removed it from the app is not promising. Can anyone share updates?

Also, https://archive.ph/20230908015110/https://seymourhersh.subst...