It's a dangerous fantasy: a magic key that only good guys can use. But as Internet Society (npub1q65…xjwh) CEO Sally Wentworth argues in a Project Syndicate op-ed, cybersecurity isn't magic.
A backdoor is a backdoor. If you build it, they will exploit it. Salt Typhoon proved this.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
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2025-10-17 00:15:03 UTC
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