Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Hacker News is such a bizarre place.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.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.I don't get this blind spot. Paying with cash is literally the easiest thing I do to reduce my data trail.