Consciousness requires having a sense of self, which implies having needs and desires that one acts to fulfill without needing prompting.

We don’t really know that much about consciousness.

Look at the embarrassment that I is Putin’s war on defenseless Ukraine.

Ah yes, the famous 3 day special military operation in Ukraine that ended February 27th 2022.

It doesn’t affect just normal people, but when you make encryption weaker, the foreign state (i.e. bad actor) surveillance also benefits.