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> When the back door is created, it cannot be destroyed.

If the "backdoor" in question is a malicious signed OS update, then it can absolutely be destroyed. There are plenty of reasons to avoid backdoors without imbuing them with mystical qualities like the inability to delete them.



Signed updates aren't secure either. Ask Microsoft.


The backdoor itself can be destroyed. The precedent of compelling a company to write an intrusion into its own software cannot be destroyed.




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