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A live example: If you are developing a chrome extension on Windows, everytime you open Chrome you'd be bugged with a popup which suggests "Disable Developer Mode Extensions". [1] Although developers are annoyed as hell, the Chrome team insisted this decision on the ground of protecting users.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=337734



Their point is entirely valid though, and it all boils down to: there is no such thing as a secure backdoor.




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