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0 pointslazide4y ago0 comments

Literally Apple could just add a different set to the set of hashes they push? That seems very naive.

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What seems naive? Adding hashes will only match images, not other files, and even then only if a group is matched, not just one.

lazideOP4y ago

Because people take and store images of huge numbers of different things? Like the things mentioned upthread, memes, documents? along with screenshots of a huge number of other things.

And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.

zepto4y ago

> or other files will be scanned since now

Ok, so not other files at all then. Just photos of documents.

> And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.

Ok, so this mechanism can’t do more than us claimed, but they could add a new mechanism later?

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zepto4y ago

What seems naive? Adding hashes will only match images, not other files, and even then only if a group is matched, not just one.

lazideOP4y ago

Because people take and store images of huge numbers of different things? Like the things mentioned upthread, memes, documents? along with screenshots of a huge number of other things.

And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.

zepto4y ago

> or other files will be scanned since now

Ok, so not other files at all then. Just photos of documents.

> And the details around matching (and groups, etc) are trivial to change in a later update.

Ok, so this mechanism can’t do more than us claimed, but they could add a new mechanism later?

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