Nytimes says basically the same: “In fact, it would be hard to imagine an event that could have gone better from the point of view of the Russian leader, who made no public commitment to stop his assault on Ukraine and yet was treated as a valued friend. Mr. Trump did not fault Mr. Putin for starting the brutal war and left without mentioning the sanctions that just hours earlier he had threatened to impose if there were no deal.”

They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.

That would mean malware can use your local ip and hostfile for mitm attacks.

They know it will hurt Apple more than them.

Presumably black Friday is a “all hands on deck” day, so a tiny group might make a difference.

The kickstarter failed in 2019… as this article is 4 years old.