> But when a backdoor is installed, the backdoor exists and history teaches that it’s only a matter of time before it’s also used by the bad guys and authoritarian regimes.
Problem is that this scanning is necessarily fuzzy and there is going to be a false positive rate to it. And the way that you'll find out that you've tripped a false positive is that the SWAT team will knock your door down and kill your dog (at a minimum). Then you'll be stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare trying to prove your innocence where you've been accused by a quasi Governmental agency that hides its methods so the "bad guys" can't work around them.
It isn't just "authoritarian regimes" abusing it, it is the stochastic domestic terrorism that our own government currently carries out against its own citizens every time there's a beaurocratic fuckup in how it manages its monopoly on violence.
This is the "Apple/Google cancelled my account and I don't know why" problem combined with SWATing.
Problem is that this scanning is necessarily fuzzy and there is going to be a false positive rate to it. And the way that you'll find out that you've tripped a false positive is that the SWAT team will knock your door down and kill your dog (at a minimum). Then you'll be stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare trying to prove your innocence where you've been accused by a quasi Governmental agency that hides its methods so the "bad guys" can't work around them.
It isn't just "authoritarian regimes" abusing it, it is the stochastic domestic terrorism that our own government currently carries out against its own citizens every time there's a beaurocratic fuckup in how it manages its monopoly on violence.
This is the "Apple/Google cancelled my account and I don't know why" problem combined with SWATing.