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Part of me is looking forward to the time when a government activates a significant part of all the spyware/adware/backdoors/etc in the world as part of a cyber

Part of me is looking forward to the time when a government activates a significant part of all the spyware/adware/backdoors/etc in the world as part of a cyberwar. COVID would be a child's game compared to that, but that disaster would at last make people understand how bad tech has become at this point. Double points if the operation is started by another state/group that stole those backdoors.

eastbound 3y ago
The worst part of adult life is realizing you already live in a world where this happens. Regularly. And no-one bats an eye. And you try to maintain sanity by adding hypothesis (“But I mean, with the government giving the keys to…”) and all of the evil you can think of, also exists.