Apple Pay does not generate a unique card number for every purchase. One number is generated when the card is added to Wallet. This seems to be a common misconception.
They may have been thinking about the transaction code. Every purchase generates a unique one-time transaction code for that vendor for a specific amount. That along with the Device Account Number is transmitted to the payment processor for the purchase.
It's very likely that this was an intentional leak to send a message to other media outlets that they should think twice before attacking billionaires.
Nothing to stop the Koch brothers from doing this.
That's not the ignorance that interests me here. There have been gag rules and confidentiality clauses in settlements forever. Secrecy in lawsuits isn't super unusual. You have any idea how many deals are made before a lawsuit is even filed? it's all secret... The EFF, ACLU, ADL, and other organizations fund legal defense and law suits and even use it as a fund raiser sometimes and we don't comb through the donation rosters and suggest a perversion of justice based on the sources of donations. There are legal defense funds for various things quite regularly. There are victim funds that are put together by communities when certain crimes happen, those funds are presented as just life help for the victims but some of that money goes to lawyers sometimes. It's just not that unusual for people to get help paying for their lawyers. And it has nothing to do with the crime.
Since Thiel revealed his involvement, that has been the story which makes me think maybe he was right to conceal it. his name and money had nothing to do with this crime.
The fact is some people want other people to fail, they want their companies to fail, it may be rational or it may be irrational or it may be revenge based but society allows that. You can short a stock if you want, if you have enough money you can even affect the price of the stock. Gawker placed itself in a situation where it had substantial financial risk, Thiel simply exploited it. Don't make powerful enemies, don't break laws, this is avoidable stuff. It wasn't a frivolous lawsuit that some billionaire manipulated in to a company killer. Nobody's taken out tmz or drudge or many of the others....
It's also ironic, I'd argue that any deal to pay for lawyers is a private matter. The very existence of that privacy is a concept gawker doesn't seem to comprehend and that's what caused their problem in the first place.
> Since Thiel revealed his involvement, that has been the story which makes me think maybe he was right to conceal it. his name and money had nothing to do with this crime.
Same here. I'd have also continued to make it secret. I expect the media to carry out a series of character assassinations on Peter Thiel on baseless grounds, and then self referentially refer to their campaigns of the past as evidence for campaigns of the present. "Oh Thiel? That guy who was constantly being sued by [media ally] before, he's being sued again [different media ally] to nobody's [the media] surprise. Ha ha, what a bunch these crazy Silicon Valley tycoons are, I bet Joe Public is tired [opinion forming] of their petty games".
The main threat to Thiel is probably the opportunity cost of fending off the media all the time. The only solution I can think of is a diversion.
I am pretty sure that if Thiel funds private investigators into Denton's crew and the Devil himself, he'll find plenty of distraction material for the media to devour their own. After all, Nick Denton has likely already unleashed the hounds and this would merely be returning the favour.
It is dirty but that is how this is played I'm afraid. It gets worse from here!
Can you point me to some examples where an individual financed litigation against a media outlet or journalist? I don't doubt they exist, but I can't think of any specifically.
When quite a few individuals took News International to court between 2009 and 2011 for illegally eavesdropping on their mobile phones in the UK, a number of them had their legal costs underwritten by Max Mosely. This is just the same thing: a wealthy individual making sure that legal costs do not preclude action against Gawker.
It's exactly the same thing. Mosely had his privacy violated by News International. Thiel had his violated by Gawker. Mosely set up a war chest to assist those taking legal action against News International. Thiel did so for those taking action against Gawker. Both had an axe to grind with news organisations they felt were behaving badly. Both assisted individuals with legal cases that would have otherwise gone nowhere because of the high cost of the legal system. Both News International and Gawker have relied on this in the past.
I think this is a common misperception regarding Apple Pay - it actually does not use disposable credit card numbers. Apple Pay generates a Device Account Number (DAN) once when you add a card to your phone's wallet. Thereafter, the same DAN is reused on that device for all transactions with that card.
So it actually does not do much to defeat merchant tracking, assuming you consistently use Apple Pay where it is available.
If you are using ES6 class syntax, then I would think you would also be using const / let; and if you are using const / let, then FlowTypes is, for me anyway, borderline unusable because it still does not support them (although there is apparently a fork with pseudo-support, if you want to deal with that):
@prottmann alluded to it, but it might be useful to add Marty as well (http://martyjs.org) (no affiliation).
It's just behind Reflux on the superficial metrics (stars, contributors, npm downloads) so is likely to be on most short-lists.
I've had a good experience with Marty so far but remain curious about the others. Reflux worries me a bit because of its minor divergences from the Flux design decisions.
I disabled both Spotlight Suggestions and Bing yet Spotlight -- via SpotlightNetHelper -- still attempts to connect to api.smoot.apple.com:443 and wu.apple.com:80.
Good thought, but I disabled that too.
Edit: Twitter discussion regarding one of these issues. Note that Spotlight is doing this despite all relevant settings disabled (spotlight suggestions, bing, privacy, and logging).
wu.apple.com is an address associated with location service requests. If you've disabled location for spotlight, it's possible that it was something else requesting the location.
