It ellimentant the subconscious impulse to look at the keys. Many typist think they are touch typist until they are actually face to face with a unlabeled keyboard.
If you follow riseup.net's recommendation you'll keep your signing key backed up and offline. The only key on your laptop would be a subkey that could be revoked using the offline key or its backup.
We're not dealing with 99 ASs blocking another bad actor. We're talking about one service that sits in front of many popular services on the internet deciding to block another for dubious reasons. Cloudflare has near monopoly power here.
I use a 13" Retina MBP for work. But I recently got a Surface Pro 4 for personal project and I'm falling more in love with it every day. Being able to pull the keyboard off the laptop, flip it vertical, and read on the couch is a big plus.
Your proving my point. When the store was first launched it did have a problem with misleading apps. But today those problems are far less. MS tweaked their submission policies and tossed the misleading app. That shows continued work on the trust and security of the store, a value add, and thus not rent-seeking.
Microsoft isn't rent-seeking with Windows 10. They are attempting to build a secure and trusted platform, just like Apple did with iOS. That platform and the store for the platform are valuable. I applaud them for moving in this direction and applaud them some more for doing it without sacrificing the openness of Win32 on the PC (at least for now).
There is no realid. When you are chatting with someone through Richoet you are connecting to a Tor hidden service that is running on their system. Tor goes to great lengths to hide the true identify of both the client and the service when your using hidden services.