Yeah I was like "maybe I was wrong" but then I came to that part and just had to laugh.
I would love to assume that everyone is benevolent - but they simply are not. It's not like there aren't sufficient examples of states without police or military power. They surely don't correspond to this fantastical view.
Sure they can, it just isn't as simple as "just" ;) How do you, for example, determine who picked which item if two people are standing next to each other? Or if something is put back?
Sure, a proof of concept will always work. Building it for the real world is a completely and utterly different beast.
Sooo... What exactly changed about the service?
In the case of Steam that's because no other corpo run by parasites can create anything close to it. You're completely free to get any other launcher or store that takes a smaller cut.
And now is where your misguided comparison completely falls apart: Apple users have no other choice than the AppStore. Even if someone wanted to create a better store, they just can't.
I get what you mean but the block in Congress is based on bad faith. Sometimes you gotta get pragmatic.
A username is not something "you are", it's something "you know". Biometrics are not nearly the same as usernames.
You should first try reading it at all.
I'm not sure I follow you - if someone can compromise the key material on my phone that is protected by a different factor, then it doesn't matter whether the 2FA is server-side or not, it's compromised either way.
The fact that the poster is a prolific YouTube creator, so a primary source themselves.
Maybe if your muffins weren't encrypted you could eat them to lighten up!!
It depends on the context, but generally you require explicit permission for data-related stuff which means something like a checkbox or a signature.
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