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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by pkulak on Saturday December 04, 2021 @12:20PM (#29442342)
Alright, then everything is a backdoor. Snaps are backdoors. Windows is a backdoor. MacOS is a backdoor. Watches are backdoors. Every cell phone is a backdoor. Thermostats and headphones and book readers are backdoors. Every car currently sold new is a backdoor. 90% of every device we interact with is a backdoor. So why put that in the title? It means nothing.
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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by kbelder on Saturday December 04, 2021 @09:37PM (#29446275)
Very close. 90% of the computerized devices we interact with have backdoors. But then you jump to "backdoors must not be a problem" instead of "we have a severe problem all around us."
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Re:Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kil... by mike741 on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:17PM (#29446426)
Not everything is a backdoor, but Windows absolutely is and that's part of why people dislike Windows and voluntarily use the older versions. MacOS, and some cell phone OS's, at least let the user choose if/when to update in which case they're not backdoors.
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