- 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!


Really great comment! I do not agree with the edit, tho. Apple’s dude is the one with they on his and, on an Apple device. Doesn’t look like Apple is depicted as an innocent agent here, to me