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!

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Is really sad when a company is forced to install a backdoor like that, kill all their revenue, how they will sell all your data if the buyer can get it for free? Poor companies.

      • DJ Putler@lemmy.mlB
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        22 days ago

        I never said it was AI slop but that’s an etymologically interesting thing you’ve got going on there, if I was a scientist I’d look into it

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    22 days ago

    My conspiracy mind sometimes thinks that Apple has said backdoor and has given the keys, but plays a pretend game with the govt as if they didn’t

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The world is so vast and complicated, you just cant comprehend what good things your representatives are trying to do for you with your simple, tired, working class, simple brain.

    Its hard work running a government, not that you would ever know because youre not in the big club. That’s why good things are hard to accomplish.

    Your government loves you so much its worked its butt off towards this common goal with other nation states across the world simultaneously. Why arent you grateful?

    Now go on back to your increasingly more expensive apartment, you got to get a lot to do before you get to your shift at your 3rd part time job. Oh and the retirement age went up again. Youre welcome.

  • LeTak@feddit.org
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    22 days ago

    The problem is, that nearly no OS is perfect. Even grapheneOS and copperheadOS. If a three letter agency wants to get access to the systems running a privacy OS, they will somehow get it. Who should block the door to the devs home? They raid them, acquire the signing keys with their methods and deploy a backdoor in the next OTA update.

    It is always about thread level and alternative options. If they get Apple, you move to Android, then to graphene, then to sailfishOS and whatever comes next. If you care about it. But the thing is…. Who cares? Privacy and security enthusiast, for sure. Freedom of the press people? Hopefully But these people don’t always know about that shit, and those are to protect.

  • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Love the weird scale of threat depicted here.

    -smol bean megacorporation

    -regular bean fbi man

    -Big Hacker, the big hacker lobbyist

    -giant evil FOREIGNER with their evil UNIFORM and MEDALS

    -ect, other guys, artist kind of blew his load drawing all those evil medals

    Like the scale implies I should be most worried about the biggest guy, but I live in America. The feds are the biggest threat to me. You can tell this wasn’t drawn by a leftist because…well, almost everything, but mostly because of how normal they seem to think the FBI is, and how small a deal being spied on by them apparently is compared to being spied on by someone that doesn’t have the capacity to send a death squad to my apartment at any moment.