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0 pointsethbro10y ago0 comments

That's the difference between people designing a system against a malicious adversary and a user.

Nowadays, if it involves money, for godsakes please assume the former.

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chaosfox10y ago· 1 in thread

the system is still bad even without a malicious party, as said in the article, if the user go back to page 1 after reading the book the system will count the book as unread and the author will not get paid.

DanHulton10y ago

Pretty sure that's not true. They sync "furthest page read" not "last page read".

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