- 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!


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.