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Chat control (lemmy.ml)

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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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

"If you don't have anything to hide, why would you be against this?" -- Americans

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

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.

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 days ago

Love the weird scale of threat depicted here.

-smol bean megacorporation

-regular bean fbi man

-Big Hacker, the big hacker lobbyist

-giant evil FOREIGNER with their evil UNIFORM and MEDALS

-ect, other guys, artist kind of blew his load drawing all those evil medals

Like the scale implies I should be most worried about the biggest guy, but I live in America. The feds are the biggest threat to me. You can tell this wasn't drawn by a leftist because...well, almost everything, but mostly because of how normal they seem to think the FBI is, and how small a deal being spied on by them apparently is compared to being spied on by someone that doesn't have the capacity to send a death squad to my apartment at any moment.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I also love the idea that all these people are waiting, specifically, for YOUR phone. This is masterful propaganda. Only thing missing is Putin drawn with bat wings, bloody fangs, and black eyes, and Zelensky as an angel blocking Putin.

[-] Hypocrite9554@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Yeah the choice of scale is very weird, why are hackers larger than the FBI? Also doesn't really seem mutually exclusive

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because whoever made this (naively) trusts their government

[-] Rooster326@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

That's only because the FBI guy and the Oppressive Regime guy have become the same guy

[-] Thesilverpig@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Astronaut behind astronaut, Always have been

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Almost as though the cartoonist just drew a load of their stock characters and then added labels instead of putting thought into it.

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[-] carotte 69 points 2 days ago

that’s a good image to convey the message to people propagandized by the us, but yes, "fbi" and "repressive regimes" are one and the same here

your domestic government poses much more of a threat to your privacy than some foreign "repressive regime" far away

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[-] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 days ago
[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago

Oh shit not the ETC

[-] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

This illustration is completely wrong.

The man representing hackers isn't in a fur suit.

[-] Bloefz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Furries never hurt anyone. We don't bite hard 🤭🦊

[-] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 days ago

"Authoritarian governments" as if the US is isn't exactly fucking that

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you need a Chat use the anonymous https://securebit.chat/, showing the middle finger to control initiatives.

[-] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I think reinventing SimpleX Chat is already a lost cause

[-] foxfell@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like a scam, no, thanks.

[-] roundup5381@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

oh hey, its me, E T C

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

Apple seems too small and innocent in this image

[-] hypnicjerk@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago

my little trillion-dollar corporation can't be this cute!

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

As far as threats go, I would swap FBI and Hackers.

[-] Domino@quokk.au 27 points 2 days ago

What’s the ETC or behind it? What else could be worse?

And why isn’t the FBI part of the repressive regimes man?

[-] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

It's a respectable and necessary "intelligence agency" when we do it, nefarious and unjust spying when they do it. Same old propaganda.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

the cia? oligarch pedophiles?

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The scale is backwards lol.

[-] peoflor@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

"etc" it's Israel

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

We're already at the "ETC" guy

[-] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The FBI and others have had the open back door to iPhones for years.

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[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Should be "scammers" not "hackers".

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

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