Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Hacker News is such a bizarre place.<p>On the one hand, we have threads about how browsers are fingerprintable and some app is using telemetry and endless discussions on theoretical zero-knowledge protocols and the importance of cryptography and Snowden saying this and that that get voted up to the top.<p>On the other hand, something like this comes up which is basically another step along the "no-one accepts cash" funnel and so now everything you ever buy with metadata is part of the borg. Like, you've literally deliberately introduced an MiTM.<p>I don't get this blind spot. Paying with cash is literally the easiest thing I do to reduce my data trail.