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You must surely realize that slippery slopes exist. And as soon as adversarial code exists in your device, it will only expand.

Reference: history of literally every dictatorship includes many "reasonable" expansions of power in the name of security/safety/etc...



Yes, but I think you’d agree that each slippery slope has a certain degree of probability.

The slippery slope from Apple checking image hashes to hourly strip-searches seems rather unlikely, which makes your analogy unhelpful.




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