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Chat control (europe.pub)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/privacy@programming.dev
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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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[–] Airfried@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

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