[blawson]

Apparently you're meant to use kibibyte for 2^10 (1024) bytes, with the prefix kilo being the International System of Units' version of 1000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

[protomyth]

Yes, I would prefer the US government to require that prefix.

[dataflow]

The funny thing is kibi is short for kilobinary which still has kilo in it!