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Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on threats to undermine privacy (www.techradar.com)
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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

It's not only a joke, it's an analogy to show how stupid the claims of politicians are, that they want to have a backdoor for law enforcement.
Of course the analogy isn't perfect for the reasons you describe, and those reasons makes it actually worse.

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