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> At the very least, this would need some quantification of risk

Yes, of course.

And in the case of autoupdates:

1. the risk of finding a RCE in any random PC within the next few years is close to 100%

2. an unpatched RCE is strictly worse than a backdoor

3. how many computers won't be patched without forced autoupdates?

In the case of e2ee, I'm afraid it's much harder to quantify, though.




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