alt Hacker NewsIt may be of the same order, but it is a different thing. No one, not even techies like here on HN, are going to see his actions as valid.
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wqaatwt • yesterday at 7:30 PM
It’s not fundamentally different than indiscriminately scanning everyone’s private communication (what the Danish government is trying to accomplish on the EU level)
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He has to use a different method because obviously he does not have a backdoor into the prime minister's phone. The fact that "obviously wrong" invasive methods have to be used (now) to imitate something that the prime minister want to apply to every citizen (except himself and his buddies) in the future can be seen as part of the point.