All the good backdoors have got to be in the hardware anyway. There's only a handful of companies making the chips all our systems run on. US companies that can be forced to backdoor their stuff under secret gag orders. I mean, I'm not saying that PSP/CSME subsystems are backdoors, but if I were going to force companies to add one, it'd probably end up looking similar. The blackbox wireless chipsets in all our phones also come from a very small number of companies.

We're in an uneasy truce with regards to mandatory backdoors.

They're not demanded because targets are just so easy to pop.

If we did secure software across the board with AI, there'd likely be a resurgence of calls for mandatory backdoors.

Love the optimism.