I think the authors treatment of backdoors and exceptional access is a narrow focus.

We will certainly see “front door” access as various places have or are attempting to enact client side scanning, id verified online access, software root of trust remote attestation, and the general attack on e2e.

Taken together your identity tied to unmodifiable software, necessary to access the web or modern economy with client side scanning and no e2e … is a front door.

All this has nothing to do with ai, bugs, hackers or security vulnerabilities, let alone backdoors