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0 pointscarnitas4y ago0 comments

Apple hashes all of your photos offline and then pinky promises to only check the hashes against the official on phone database when the user initiated an upload. The problem isn’t about wackos it’s about governments forcing Apple to do things with this new weapon

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tpush4y ago· 4 in thread

> Apple hashes all of your photos offline [...]

No, only the ones designated for upload to iCloud.

> [...] it’s about governments forcing Apple to do things with this new weapon

Governments can already force Apple to do any kind of scanning, "weapon" being built already or not.

> > Apple hashes all of your photos offline [...]

> No, only the ones designated for upload to iCloud.

How do you verify that?

theshrike794y ago

If you turn off iCloud, the hash list will never get downloaded on your phone. No scanning will take place in that case.

withinboredom4y ago

Says who? Apple? How much is that worth?

If Apple were going to lie about this process, they didn't need to announce it and go into so much detail at all. They could have just kept it quiet the way the current server side CSAM scanning is done by others already. The legal and market impacts of Apple lying would be severe.

gjsman-10004y ago· 2 in thread

Every other cloud storage provider has implemented scanning since 2011-2013.

merpnderp4y ago

I haven't seen a single person concerned about Apple scanning photos in iCloud. The problem is entirely that the scan is happening on your personal phone with apparently some janky implementation that in one week has already shown to have serious flaws.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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