Here is a thought experiment.
Let's suppose that there's a way that you can create a perfectly impenetrable room in your house. The technology somehow comes along to allow this: if you pay SecurityCo enough money, they will install a room that literally no one can get into except for you. You can put whatever you like in there, secure in the knowledge that no matter how important the public interest (for example, there is a computer in there set to detonate nuclear bombs across the globe), no one can get in.
Should SecurityCo be allowed to make and sell this product?
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