Zepto complained that it was out of context. Here are entire comments. “ As far as I can see: 1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving soluti

Zepto complained that it was out of context. Here are entire comments. “ As far as I can see: 1. This is a serious attempt to build a privacy preserving solution to child pornography. 2. The complaints are all slippery slope arguments that governments will force Apple to abuse the mechanism. These are clearly real concerns and even Tim Cook admits that if you build a back door, bad people will use it. However: Child pornography and the related abuse is widely thought of as a massive problem, that is facilitated by encrypted communication and digital photography. People do care about this issue. ‘Think of the children’ is a great pretext for increasing surveillance, because it isn’t an irrational fear. So: where are the proposals for a better solution? I see here people who themselves are afraid of the real consequences of government/corporate surveillance, and whose fear prevents them from empathizing with the people who are afraid of the equally real consequences of organized child sexual exploitation. ‘My fear is more important than your fear’, is the root of ordinary political polarization. What would be a hacker alternative would be to come up with a technical solution that solves for both fears at the same time. This is what Apple has attempted, but the wisdom here is that they have failed. Can anyone propose anything better, or are we stuck with just politics as usual? Edit: added ‘widely thought of as’ to make it clear that I am referring to a widely held position, not that I am arguing for it.” > The more sophisticated child molesters out there will find out about what Apple is doing and quickly avoid it. I think this is exactly what Apple wants to he the result of their their iMessage scanning. They are not in this to make arrests. They just want parents to feel safe letting children use their products. Driving predators to use different tools is fine with them. As far as the FBI goes, this is presumably not their preference, but it’s still good for them if it makes predation a little harder.