Their FAQ says "no one can buy their way to the whitelist". Do you think they are lying?

BTW you can always change the defaults, that's what your brain is for.

A virus can get your passwords even if you set up a master password. It's not even moderately difficult.

creation process. It doesn't mention "public profile" anywhere. It doesn't join me G+ in a sneaky way like described in the article It does prompt me to "upgrade" though, but I don't have to actively avoid it, like some comments imply.

My name there is "- -" (dash as the first name, dash as the second name), can you find me on G+?

TEntireFA doesn't make much sense.

I propsose they take the name "Shminterest". Can swap my rights to it for a modest stash of Queen's portraits.

but how do I interact with the program? Will the new standard include anything like mouse input?

C/C++ is undefined behavior. Don't do that, kids!