- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
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 how many of those are they executing /day?
“Oh yeah well it’s not happening every day” dude just take the L that there are groups of people in the US who fear execution by their government who you forgot about. It’s fine to forget about people, it’s weird to get snappy about it and start moving goalposts