Not deliberately? Old key used for the backups was accidentally erased halfway through the story, shredded key was just the last cleartext copy of the new key.
I don’t think the fact is controversial, it’s just that the fact lacks context of being directed at a harassed minority. “There are higher crime statistics in majority black communities” is also a true but if you constantly go around screaming it we will wonder what your intentions are, education of facts?
No. It has a mini-pci-e shaped port and some nvme fit that size, but i believe it is for expansion boards (like the cellular module?) you could add NVME via USB port, but this thing is more like a raspberry pi, and not going to have the IO to use NVME much faster than SD card speeds.
A co-worker made this when we worked together on a project that ran a large number of terraform configurations in CI against real IaaSes. Each account was a sandbox, so we would run this at the end of a pipeline to clean up any failures or faulty teardowns.