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!
The problem is, that nearly no OS is perfect. Even grapheneOS and copperheadOS. If a three letter agency wants to get access to the systems running a privacy OS, they will somehow get it. Who should block the door to the devs home? They raid them, acquire the signing keys with their methods and deploy a backdoor in the next OTA update.
It is always about thread level and alternative options. If they get Apple, you move to Android, then to graphene, then to sailfishOS and whatever comes next. If you care about it. But the thing is…. Who cares? Privacy and security enthusiast, for sure. Freedom of the press people? Hopefully But these people don’t always know about that shit, and those are to protect.
If you need a Chat use the anonymous https://securebit.chat/, showing the middle finger to control initiatives.
I think reinventing SimpleX Chat is already a lost cause
Looks like a scam, no, thanks.
“If you don’t have anything to hide, why would you be against this?” – Americans
Agreed! Police will now be going through the streets daily. If they find your front door locked, you’re going on a list, because you’re clearly hiding something.
“etc” it’s Israel
Always keep in mind that your own state is almost always the group of actors having the most power over you. They are the ones who can hurt you or just make you jump though an infinite amount of hoops without any fear of consequence.
Normal people really can just ignore everyone who is or comes after “Hackers”. Focus on your own government. That’s where the real risks are.
biggest lifestyle challenge is escaping the apple ecosystem
also google!
This is fucking slop lmao
A famous Carlos cartoon from long before the adoption of AI?
Doubtful.
I never said it was AI slop but that’s an etymologically interesting thing you’ve got going on there, if I was a scientist I’d look into it
We’re already at the “ETC” guy
The scale is backwards lol.
As far as threats go, I would swap FBI and Hackers.
My conspiracy mind sometimes thinks that Apple has said backdoor and has given the keys, but plays a pretend game with the govt as if they didn’t
oh hey, its me, E T C
This illustration is completely wrong.
The man representing hackers isn’t in a fur suit.
Furries never hurt anyone. We don’t bite hard 🤭🦊
Etc. could have been fraudsters and/or scammers.
The world is so vast and complicated, you just cant comprehend what good things your representatives are trying to do for you with your simple, tired, working class, simple brain.
Its hard work running a government, not that you would ever know because youre not in the big club. That’s why good things are hard to accomplish.
Your government loves you so much its worked its butt off towards this common goal with other nation states across the world simultaneously. Why arent you grateful?
Now go on back to your increasingly more expensive apartment, you got to get a lot to do before you get to your shift at your 3rd part time job. Oh and the retirement age went up again. Youre welcome.
