The most worrying part here is not even whether this specific issue deserved a CVE. It is the incentive structure.

The permission to intervene matters because otherwise this risks becoming a fight between Apple, the Commission, and a few large industry players

It also fits the broader theme here: too much important behavior seems to live in the "application layer" of the charger, while the more durable source of truth is elsewhere.

This is funny, but also exactly why ads in a conversational assistant feel different from ads in search

The uncomfortable part is that "ads as a last resort" sounds very different once the product becomes one of the main places people ask for advice

The most interesting part to me is not that ads exist, but how invisible the boundary becomes

If you were around those circles, a lot of the "signals" in the article just look like the shared baseline culture rather than anything uniquely identifying

Also, Szabo's whole reputation comes from bit gold and years of writing about exactly these ideas

I'm almost 100% certain he's the creator of Bitcoin. I didn't need to see his technical chops to suspect it -- all I needed was to read his article from 2002 which discusses the whole concept and key ideas that Bitcoin is currently based on: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/

Coming up with the idea and implementing it in the real world are two different things. You don’t think there’s any chance someone read the paper and used his ideas to create Bitcoin?

There is a chance - yes, but there's a lot of other evidence that he was involved in its creation (not just the 10+ years he talked about bit-gold prior to bitcoin). Bit-gold = bitcoin. My guess is that someone (like Hal Finny) implemented it with him but he was the originator of the idea and wrote the paper on it. Finny most likely had the original keys or he intentionally got rid of them on purpose (which explains why the wallet hasn't been active). Those are my guesses but the language in the paper very much gives me the impression that it was written by Nick Szabo.

E-Gold fulfilled all of these ideas and existed long before bitcoin and this article.

It's technically true, but it's also a very selective framing

Yes, this seems like one of those cases where "the public is curious" and "the public has a right to know" are being blurred together