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Crypto-shredding does not delete anything from your old backups

An erasure request comes in. The person's data is in your database, in three replicas, and in nightly backups you keep for five years because a regulator told you to. You cannot rewrite a backup.

  • Erased records remain recoverable in backups due to stored wrapped DEKs.
  • Crypto-shredding uses DEK and KEK encryption, leaving ciphertext intact.
  • Rotation with retirement destroys master key to ensure unrecoverable erased data.

Deploying an Agent Substrate Actor After ActorTemplate Left Kubernetes

As of 09/02/2026, the ActorTemplate object no longer exists. It was created, as the name suggests, to be the template/golden template that Actors use to deploy with particular settings and…

  • ActorTemplate object removed as of September 2, 2026
  • ActorTemplate leaked wrong identity, naming, lifecycle, authentication
  • Agent Substrate replaces Kubernetes API for templates

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