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Without knowing how neuralHash works, there are significant claims in this article about fingerprinting that can’t be verified. “ Fingerprints from images of s
by buildbot 5y ago
Without knowing how neuralHash works, there are significant claims in this article about fingerprinting that can’t be verified.
“ Fingerprints from images of similar content are not themselves similar. Two photographs of the same subject should produce entirely dissimilar fingerprints. The fingerprints of your own photos of your kids are no more likely to match the fingerprint of an image in NCMEC’s CSAM database than is a photo of a sunset or a fish.”
You and I can’t know this is true!
- dannyw 5y agoIf you have worked on perceptual hashing, you know this just isn't true. It's like someone saying TLS prevents all eavesdropping. No, it doesn't! On a population level scale, everyday people will have their photos analysed by a human working for Apple, and potentially arrested and charged for false positives. And on a world scale, this will be a tool mandated by governments via legislation to silence dissents, trace the origins of leaks, and can even make possession of things like the Snowden documents illegal. The NSA is probably thinking about how they give hashes of their top secret documents so they arrest the next Snowden before he/she gets the word out.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoAnd we know how this has went in the past: wooops, our system has made a mistake and ruined your like, we apologize and won't do it again. No consequences and they'll do it again.
- wuschel 5y agoThat is a very important point. I was ambivalent about Apple's ecosystem and thought about about making a buy in due to their excellent UI integration. I believe I will wait and have a good look at alternatives again.