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!
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.
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.
Thank goodness hackers can't fit through that door so it's perfectly safe!
> Implying the FBI is not part of a repressive regime.
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.
Anything but etc.!
Tim Apple
Now do the same comic, but they're all the same person.
Every intel CPU since ~2008 has had a built-in backdoo: IME - Intel Management Engine
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