> Implying the FBI is not part of a repressive regime.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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Right?
The "Backdoor for the Good Guys" is a myth.
No "Good Guys" ask for such an absurd vulnerability into someone's personal digital existence. Every single person in power asking for it knows what they're doing.
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!
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.
Tim Apple
Anything but etc.!