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There's a difference a mile wide between moderating a service and moderating people's personal computers. Maybe the same thing that makes this hard to understa

• donkeyd 5y ago
  > moderating people's personal computers This is done client side because your data is encrypted in their cloud. It won't be done if you disable cloud sync. If you just keep your cp out of the cloud, you're fine.
  • swiley 5y ago
    TBH it doesn't matter at all why they're doing it, they've crossed a line here.
  • new299 5y ago
    Apple can decrypt data stored on iCloud, and they scan it already it seems: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-icloud-photos-for-child-abuse-images/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-... Which it what makes adding the client side functionality even more problematic. They can easily extend this to scanning all offline content.
• tda 5y ago
  except that the boundary between device and service is steadily eroding. A screen is a device and netflix is a service, but a smart tv that won't function without an internrt connection? A nokia was a device you owned, but any Apple device is more like a service than a device really, as you don't control what OS can run on it, which unsigned software you run etc. So if you are ok with moderation on services and your device turns into a service... Perhaps we need laws to fully separate hardware and software but actually the integration between hardware and software is becoming stronger and stronger every year