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And this has always been Apple’s stance because of the government. We lock down the phone and don’t let the government in but if you use cloud service that does

And this has always been Apple’s stance because of the government. We lock down the phone and don’t let the government in but if you use cloud service that doesn’t have the same rights because it’s not stored on your property. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/apple-drops-plans-icloud-encryption-after-fbi-complain https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/apple-drops-plans-... This sounds like them trying to find a way to encrypt your data and remove the fbi from having a “what about the children excuse”. They scan the image on upload and then store it on iCloud and encrypt it. It’s of course a slippery slope but the FBI has been trying to have back doors everywhere since forever.

gordon_gee123 5y ago
In a somewhat judo move, it could end up protecting user security going forward if the FBI has no leverage with pedophile content in iCloud, there’s no argument for a backdoor. I won’t play total corporate shill here but it seems people are jumping to this being the end of times vs a) a way to catch severe abusers of child pornography and b) removing a trump card for future security org strawman arguments
vmladenov 5y ago
Exactly this. And this further opens the opportunity for E2EE iCloud Photos where Apple can’t look at your photos on their servers at all. This gives them cover that they’re not hosting illegal content.