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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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[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are they legally executing people protesting the government at a comparable rate to, say, Iran or Saudi Arabia?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Definitely higher than Iran, possibly lower than Saudi Arabia lol

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Iran is executing about 100 prisoners per month. How many do you have the US at?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Of course Iran is worse than the US, this extremely well documented US propaganda operation told me so"