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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!

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[–] 69420@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Now do the same comic, but they're all the same person.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] hobovision@mander.xyz 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

> Implying the FBI is not part of a repressive regime.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Airfried@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago

Thank goodness hackers can't fit through that door so it's perfectly safe!

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

I was gonna say FBI is more of a threat than hackers are this point.

[–] ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] lena 6 points 1 day ago

Anything but etc.!