It’s funny in tech it’s generally understood that that attention economy apps are in competition even though they ostensibly are not direct competitors. But when it comes to entertainment (the original attention economy) we don’t think of it in the same way.
NFL and related sport are, at least putatively, unscripted.
Which might be raised in relation to gaming as well, but I'd argue that gaming elements share much more in common with cinema, particularly in the contexts of world design, character development, backstory, and of course, CGI.
It's something akin to a service provider in SAML parlance, if we are to believe reporting. How can it be air-gapped?
And if we are to believe the hacked company, it is a development environment with test data in it. That remains to be seen, but is a risky thing to lie about. If there is production data in the leak, we will surely know about it.
If you can't implement it securely then perhaps such an undertaking wasn't a good idea? In the vast majority of cases I don't see why PII ever needs to be available over the network for remote queries. For the purpose of verification isn't it sufficient to verify hashes or better yet to attest via smartcard?
That's not an excuse though, any system handling data like that should be continuously reviewed and pentested by professionals. Hopefully they can show that this has been done otherwise it's just negligence.
And it's pretty clear to me that they were criticizing storage of sensitive data in a database that isn't properly secured and they simply misused the term "airgapped". The database in question was easily accessible from poorly maintained development infrastructure.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize
No one seems to want to answer your practical question. As I understand it, you receive an email with a payment link. When paid, your email is received by recipient.
I am unsure whether you could use e.g. Apple Pay to pay directly, or if you’d have to follow the microtransaction playbook to buy a greater amount of currency which you can spend.
I do think I answered his general question, which seemed centered around his bitcoin skepticism.
The more detailed answer on how this works can be found by going to the site and clicking "How It Works"
1 Someone Emails You
2 The Gate Catches It
3 Sender Sees the Payment Page - The sender clicks the payment link in the reply. They see exactly what's being held and what it costs:
4 Pay with Lightning — 15 seconds
5 Email Delivered
Depends on the firmware of the device. Latest firmware (anything after version 5.18.5.01 - which released in October 2025) is currently not jailbreakable.
Jailbreak of any firmware after version 5.16.2.1.1 (June 2023) requires the Kindle to be connected and registered.
Anything prior to, and including this version, can be jailbroken with no registration.
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