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by mattkevan 2617 days ago
Was thinking the exact same thing.

Though I got the impression that it was a deliberate backdoor to allow security services to operate incognito, rather than an AI-fooling hack. Maybe just because the book was written before modern neural nets became so widespread.

A friend used to design systems for a major CCTV company. I asked him to add a similar backdoor for me, but sadly he never did...