The difference is you can't just copy and paste the private key into a phishing website. The login process validates your private key and logs you in.

Also since the service does not store your private key, it is more resistant to data-breaches as that is one less potential breach source.

But most password programs do this too, if you install the plugin (which you pretty much need if you want those same programs to do the passkey thing, anyways)

I looked up the June 2026 breach and there is no mention of passwords being stolen. Only some PII (Phone, name, email, address) through a third party.

You can fight scalpers by hardware limiting the device to the account that was used to purchase for some set time (2 years or so)

Popular gaming forums NeoGaf and Resetera only allow signups from paid email accounts. All free and temporary email providers are banned to discourage trolls / forum raids / alt accounts.

I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

I have been "permanently" banned for embarrassing some abusive moderators; now it has become a vendetta. I'm not sure how many user-identifying methods they attempt, but it overcomes VPN usage. I obfuscate my Web traffic now and it seems to have foiled these losers.

Use Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.

Yes, this is just an even shorter rehash of what has been said several times now.

I think the question here is: what is the specific criminal charge or law that was broken to be arrested?

You don't have to be charged with anything to be arrested. Kennedy's wikipedia page suggests they were released from jail, implying LEO decided they actually committed no crime (and certainly weren't charged). If you're really curious, maybe the jurisdiction has public arrest records, but this assumes that the cops were doing everything by the book, which is not always an apt assumption.

My guess is that towns and leo get, let's say, passionate, when a big tourism draw gets defaced, or when something can get more dangerous, but cooler heads eventually prevailed.

Infinity - 21 is still infinity

Seems to me that hardware modification would be a banned technique.

There are usually separate categories based on various factors, like which console a game is played on (if it was released on multiple), what the win condition is (do you need to 100% the game, or just see the credits roll?), and whether certain glitches are allowed. Those are nearly always software glitches, but hardware glitches aren't unheard of :)

Speedrunning communities generally hate it when having more money leads to an advantage.

If you ban deliberately smudging/scratching the disc, then some runner with a lot of money will just buy a lot of copies of the disc, find the one that glitches the most consistently (because of pre-existing scratches, or even manufacturing defects that aren’t visible)

Allowing some kind of mod is the most equitable compromise.

They typically ban the glitch entirely. For example cartridge manipulation or "CD streaming" glitches in Zelda speedruns are banned, and if you submitted a run containing them while claiming the game did it on its own, they would probably tell you to get a new copy of the game.

I wonder if making the game free to play before shut down would allow them to skirt the law?

I doubt it, as that'd not nullify the contract established by people who bought the game before it went FTP.