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> Get unlimited access + a free YubiKey. Subscribe What's this? > Subscribe today to get unlimited access to WIRED and get a free, exclusive WIRED YubiKey 4.

> Get unlimited access + a free YubiKey. Subscribe What's this? > Subscribe today to get unlimited access to WIRED and get a free, exclusive WIRED YubiKey 4. > 1 year for $10 Can I get like 300 subscriptions to Wired?

tptacek 8y ago
It's a U2F key, not a Y4.
- graystevens 8y ago
  I thought the same, but according to Yubico themselves[0], it’s a Yubikey 4 with some branding. Unless that was a previous campaign? [0] https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-choose-yubikey-4-new-subscribers/ https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-ch...
- ryanlol 8y ago
  Definitely looks like a Y4 https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired
  - excalibur 8y ago
    More significantly, it claims to be one.
    - tptacek 8y ago
      Wait, whoah, they're giving away Y4s? I thought (clearly) they were U2F keys. Well, I guess I was wrong.
- tptacek 8y ago
  ^^ this is wrong
josefresco 8y ago
$5 my dude: https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/116304 https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/116304
colemannugent 8y ago
I subscribed about two months ago after seeing this on /r/sysadmin. I got my first issue, but I still haven't got my Yubikey :( I have a feeling that they might be waiting on a huge order of the branded Yubikeys to arrive.
- 14 8y ago
  Reading the fine print on their site it says offer only valid in the U.S. and would be delivered with in 4 weeks. Are you a U.S. resident or could that be an issue? Hope you get it
  - 52-6F-62 8y ago
    There's an international form and the deal still applies! It's just $10 instead of 5 (scratch that, they make it $20 CAD after everything...) https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired
    - computerfriend 8y ago
      International shipping bumps this up to 40 USD, which is a ridiculous shipping fee for a letter.
    - lorenzhs 8y ago
      "You will receive your exclusive YubiKey within 4 weeks after being charged. Offer valid in U.S. only." :(
      - 52-6F-62 8y ago
        That’s odd. My invoice shows that I get one here in Canada and says 6-8 weeks both on the confirmation screen and the email copy. I’ve been reading Wired articles for years for free so I don’t mind signing up for a year regardless. I guess I’ll find out and can report back for anybody who wants to know for sure haha.
        8y ago
dshibarshin 8y ago
Always wondered how magazines could afford to pay for this?
- schoen 8y ago
  I remember a reprint of a MAD Magazine issue from the 1960s or 1970s that was making fun of magazines' extravagant promotions to boost their circulation. The cartoon showed a magazine publisher personally visiting a non-renewing subscriber and offering him a serious of inducements to renew, culminating in the offer of the publisher's daughter's hand in marriage if the subscriber would agree to continue his subscription for another year. In the punchline, the publisher said something to the effect of "and that's how we keep our subscription figures climbing!".
- secabeen 8y ago
  The auto-renewal. Most people will forget about the renewal, then renew after a year at full rates.
  - jiaweihli 8y ago
    Isn't the easy solution to this to immediately cancel auto renewal right after subscribing?
- friday99 8y ago
  Ad revenue. You are the product not the customer, same in print as online ;)
duiker101 8y ago
Wow for $10 I can get a printed edition shipped internationally for one year and the key... that's.... something. Probably first time I will subscribe to an online magazine.
settler4 8y ago
You can buy it as a gift... to 300 of your close friends who are incidentally named like you and live in your house.
Tomte 8y ago
It looks really shady. They never tell you how much shipping costs on their web site (to Europe), and then you're taken to Paypal where it clearly shows "10 dollars" (nothing else) and a blue "Pay" button. After clicking "Pay" you're getting an email that 40 dollars have been sent to Condé Nast. That borders on fraud. Let's see what customer support has to say about it.

tptacek 8y ago

It's a U2F key, not a Y4.

graystevens 8y ago
I thought the same, but according to Yubico themselves[0], it’s a Yubikey 4 with some branding. Unless that was a previous campaign? [0] https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-choose-yubikey-4-new-subscribers/ https://www.yubico.com/2018/02/wired-ars-technica-experts-ch...
ryanlol 8y ago
Definitely looks like a Y4 https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired
- excalibur 8y ago
  More significantly, it claims to be one.
  - tptacek 8y ago
    Wait, whoah, they're giving away Y4s? I thought (clearly) they were U2F keys. Well, I guess I was wrong.
tptacek 8y ago
^^ this is wrong

josefresco 8y ago

$5 my dude: https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/116304 https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired/116304

colemannugent 8y ago

I subscribed about two months ago after seeing this on /r/sysadmin. I got my first issue, but I still haven't got my Yubikey :( I have a feeling that they might be waiting on a huge order of the branded Yubikeys to arrive.

14 8y ago
Reading the fine print on their site it says offer only valid in the U.S. and would be delivered with in 4 weeks. Are you a U.S. resident or could that be an issue? Hope you get it
- 52-6F-62 8y ago
  There's an international form and the deal still applies! It's just $10 instead of 5 (scratch that, they make it $20 CAD after everything...) https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/wired
  - computerfriend 8y ago
    International shipping bumps this up to 40 USD, which is a ridiculous shipping fee for a letter.
  - lorenzhs 8y ago
    "You will receive your exclusive YubiKey within 4 weeks after being charged. Offer valid in U.S. only." :(
    - 52-6F-62 8y ago
      That’s odd. My invoice shows that I get one here in Canada and says 6-8 weeks both on the confirmation screen and the email copy. I’ve been reading Wired articles for years for free so I don’t mind signing up for a year regardless. I guess I’ll find out and can report back for anybody who wants to know for sure haha.
      - 8y ago

dshibarshin 8y ago

Always wondered how magazines could afford to pay for this?

schoen 8y ago
I remember a reprint of a MAD Magazine issue from the 1960s or 1970s that was making fun of magazines' extravagant promotions to boost their circulation. The cartoon showed a magazine publisher personally visiting a non-renewing subscriber and offering him a serious of inducements to renew, culminating in the offer of the publisher's daughter's hand in marriage if the subscriber would agree to continue his subscription for another year. In the punchline, the publisher said something to the effect of "and that's how we keep our subscription figures climbing!".
secabeen 8y ago
The auto-renewal. Most people will forget about the renewal, then renew after a year at full rates.
- jiaweihli 8y ago
  Isn't the easy solution to this to immediately cancel auto renewal right after subscribing?
friday99 8y ago
Ad revenue. You are the product not the customer, same in print as online ;)

duiker101 8y ago

Wow for $10 I can get a printed edition shipped internationally for one year and the key... that's.... something. Probably first time I will subscribe to an online magazine.

settler4 8y ago

You can buy it as a gift... to 300 of your close friends who are incidentally named like you and live in your house.

Tomte 8y ago

It looks really shady. They never tell you how much shipping costs on their web site (to Europe), and then you're taken to Paypal where it clearly shows "10 dollars" (nothing else) and a blue "Pay" button. After clicking "Pay" you're getting an email that 40 dollars have been sent to Condé Nast. That borders on fraud. Let's see what customer support has to say about it.