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Multiple readings Everything is about to “go dark” Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Everything is about to “go dark”

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matthew Green
“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...” evidence ↗
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Frank Pasquale Julian Sanchez Matthew Green Mary Branscombe
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““The destruction of the low-hanging vulnerability fruit will make law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies’ need much more acute. The demand for constructed, intentional backdoors will re-start in earnest” blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

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“I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Matthew Green: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wrote up a new post about what AI software finding might mean for the backdoor debate. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/e...
Mary Branscombe: I wish folks could get past trotting comments that just confirm their priors because the actual answers to this are going to turn out to be about culture and the technosocial side of things and laz…
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