If you want to persuade the powers that be and the general public that this is dangerous
If you want to persuade the general public that this is dangerous don't do it using some complex argument about the police being a danger to public safety. Most people don't realize that. And most elected officials think they control the police.
To persuade the powers that be that allowing companies and government agencies to keep vulnerabilities secret is worse for them than the alternative.
Our insecurity is their insecurity.
- That our phones and computers can be cracked, Diane Feinstein's phones and computers can be cracked.
- If our phones and computers can be cracked, then the phones and computers of Republican and Democratic re-election campaign teams can be cracked.
- If means that the phones and computers of Goldman Sachs, the Koch brothers and George Soros employees can be cracked.
That our secret police can crack means their secret police can crack.
Our intelligence agencies can crack means their foreign intelligence agencies can crack.
Yeah, in Soviet Russia, in China, in the USA, even in Canada the police can kill you on video and generally get away with it. But that doesn't worry those in power since they think they control the police. Those in power would be/should be more worried that allowing these sorts of vulnerabilities to exist personally hurts them, their power and their wealth.
What GreyKey and Cellebrite are selling is the means for China to steal US trade secrets -- that is what our powers that be will care about.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
