It's really cool that the full text of this paper is posted publicly like this, +1 for foss science. But it's also very dense and I'm not a physicist, can anyone ELI5 for us mere mortals?
This actually happened in WW2, after fully breaking the Enigma codes the Allies had to carefully choose which intelligence to act on and not act on, sometimes with poor results for their own side. But the alternative would have been that the Germans would have to conclude their communications were compromised and change something, rendering a lot of the effort to crack enigma in the first place moot. The Turing movie mentioned in another comment is excellent and touches on this topic.
I highly recommend the book 'Flyboys' by James Bradley (also the author of Flags of our Fathers) for help putting this period of WWII into context. A good portion of the end of the book discusses the firebombing of Japan and the dropping of the two nuclear bombs, and how that was rationalized as acceptable in the minds of those who participated.
I received an email with this text from support@envkey.com earlier today:
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Today I have some difficult news to share. After nearly 7 years of working on EnvKey, I’ve decided to begin winding down the company. In order to give all customers and users plenty of time to transition away, EnvKey will wind down over the next 6 months. EnvKey Cloud will shut down on February 1st, 2025 and then the EnvKey company will be dissolved.
This has been a stressful and emotional decision for me, but unfortunately I’ve had to accept that continuing to run EnvKey is no longer financially sustainable for myself and my family, and therefore it’s time to move on.
I understand that this may come as a surprise and a disappointment. I’m deeply honored by the trust that hundreds of organizations and thousands of users have placed in EnvKey over the years, and I regret giving you extra work to do in transitioning away.
I hope that the gradual wind down period will help to soften any negative impact. Additionally, I've been in touch with the CEO of Infisical, another secrets management platform that is also open source, end-to-end encrypted, and similar in its spirit and goals to EnvKey. They are working on migration tools to help automate the transition as much as possible, should you choose to move to Infisical. You can learn more about migrating from EnvKey to Infisical here: https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/guides/migrating-fr...
Here are a few more details on how the wind down will work:
The creation of new accounts and orgs on EnvKey Cloud has been disabled. Updates to the EnvKey website, docs, GitHub readme, and the app itself will be made shortly as well to account for the wind down.
I’ll continue to ensure that EnvKey Cloud runs reliably and securely until February 1st, 2025.
I’ll continue to provide support during this period. Support will prioritize helping customers transition to a new system.
For customers on annual billing plans:
If your current subscription period ends before February 1st, 2025 and you retain an active EnvKey Cloud account when your subscription period ends, you will be transitioned to an equivalent monthly plan until the shut down on February 1st, 2025.
If your current subscription period ends after February 1st, 2025, a refund will be issued to you for the difference, based on the number of days after February 1st, 2025 that your subscription would end. For example, say you’re on the Cloud Pro plan—$149/mo billed annually. Your subscription would end on April 18th, 2025, 76 days (or 2.5 months) after February 1st, 2025. 2.5 x $149 = $372.50, so you would receive a refund of $372.50. If your organization is eligible for a refund based on this formula, I’ll send your billing contact an email individually to let you know when it has been issued. These refunds will be processed over the next few weeks.
I thank you for your understanding. You can reply to this email with any questions, or you can reach out to me directly: dane@envkey.com.
All the best,
Dane
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Unfortunately I can't find a post on their twitter, github or website to substantiate so the link is just to their main github.
IANAL but a face-value evaluation of this policy seems unlikely to shield Cloudflare from either civil or criminal liability for illegal activity? I know the DMCA provides a certain degree of immunity to web hosts (regarding copyrighted content in particular) but after abuse is reported I believe there's a timeline where action must be taken or they lose their immunity, right? Does a similar law not exist for content that's already always illegal (such as hosting C&C servers for/distributing malware)?
This is such a neat discovery, I'm having fun just thinking about all the amazing things you could do with this. Imagine in many years being able to inject, or deposit in some more elegant way, ceramic (or other abrasion resistant) medium into a worn bone joint and print it as cartilage tissue replacement.
While I appreciate the point of view the author of the article presents here, I do not think warning labels are a good solution to the addictiveness (and other negative effects) of social media. I would much rather see a regulatory perspective that comes at the problem from a data gathering and processing direction. If we limit (via appropriate legislation and a regulatory body) the amount and type of data that social media sites (really all websites) are allowed to retain and use to target users with content and advertising we can directly reduce the addictiveness of the product. It would be like taking the nicotine out of cigarettes during the production process, to borrow an analogy from the article.
Regarding voluntary adoption, I watched an interesting video on YouTube about this a few days ago which handles it from a "diffusion of innovation" point of view:
Presumably they're referring to Datto's recovery process (i.e. recovering automatically from secondary or tertiary backups), as opposed to just the ZFS mirror.
Not weighing in on if this is a good or bad thing overall, but I did listen to a pretty good NPR podcast a while back that explains a little more about this treaty and how it was affecting businesses in the US.
I really liked that podcast as well. If I remember correctly, one take away from the podcast that is relevant to a lot of comments below was that the U.S. used to get a net benefit from the weird international mail system. It was more recently that the import/export by direct mail balance shifted to make it a net loss to the U.S. Though it didn't sound like who the net winners and losers would be was strongly considered when the system was designed.
Generally speaking, I’m in favor of the US exiting this treaty, it really does seem like a clear distortion of the retail shipping market.
But I think it’s going to worryingly contribute to the dynamic where other nations, with quite a bit of justification in this case, see the US as playing a “heads I win, tails you lose” game with the world.
I also think people are fooling themselves if they think high-wage, low-skill manufacturing jobs are going to come back to the US because of this. Those jobs are gone, and automation is going to keep them from coming back.
This will mainly help highly automated manufacturing shops in the US, and online resellers with warehouses in the US.
Basically, I see this bringing more Amazon warehouse jobs, not many more much-mythologized blue-collar manufacturing jobs.
