It’s a trend that’s a few centuries old at least. The French and Indian War was partly caused by Americans who didn’t have enough land to farm to support a family moving west, and the British trying to stop that was one cause of the Revolution, and then the whole of 19th century American history is a combination of farmers moving west because the east was full and immigration from Europe largely driven by the farmland of Europe being full. Before that almost everywhere was stuck in a Malthusian equilibrium and if you couldn’t support a family in your home, moving away would just make it harder.
Privately controlled companies need to do what their controllers think is most important. If the Sulzbergers think taking a stand on AI is more important than profit, they can go a long time without increasing profits.
How do you remote access an air-gapped workstation? Seems like you'd need to be constantly switching whether your laptop is on the internet-connected network or the isolated network. If the laptop can switch between them automatically, wouldn't that make it possible for an attacker to jump the gap?
Even just having hosts that are sometimes internet connected and sometimes on the airgap network will greatly weaken the isolation. Stuxnet could cross an airgap with just static media, allowing thousands of computers that sometimes connect to the internet across the airgap seems like a fatal weakness.
The other key detail missing is presumably that the workstation is not air gapped at all, just prevented from accessing the internet with some firewall rules.
For those that don't know: air gapped means completely disconnected, as in literally pull the network cable out the back and never back in again. File transfers have to happen using some physical medium (traditionally write-once CDs/DVDs). You can have an air gapped network so long as the machines are just connected to each other and there's no physical route whatsoever to the internet.
Why is it a misuse to use "crypto" to refer to a currency whose design relies on secrets, but it's fine to use "crypto" to refer to keeping communications private using some secret information?
I do crypto the airport (opening the barriers with my passport, where the computer in my passport signs a challenge encrypted with its pubkey) and do crypto with my phone (making a call, which is encrypted with Ericsson SNOW), and do crypto at the corner shop (using my card, same as the passport).
If airports, phones, and corner shops claimed they 'work in crypto' it would be similarly misleading.
Even Toly refers to himself as a distributed systems engineer, because building a blockchain involves more DS work than crypto work.
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