Pandora’s iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026:
A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. Once you build it, hackers walk through, authoritarian governments walk through, and the rest follows.
The UK is pressuring for chat control right now. EU Chat Control initiatives keep popping up. We need to keep saying NO to this!
And it is not only this.
It also has the danger to invoke “chilling effects”, so self-censorship in normally private environments.
Chat control and similar ideas are anti-democratic and suppressive at their very core.Thank goodness hackers can’t fit through that door so it’s perfectly safe!
> Implying the FBI is not part of a repressive regime.
Right?
Given that the organizations like the FBI can be politically weaponized, governmental use of backdoors is just as fraught as their use by hacker groups.
I was gonna say FBI is more of a threat than hackers are this point.
Anything but etc.!
Every intel CPU since ~2008 has had a built-in backdoo: IME - Intel Management Engine
