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It’s a massive backdoor. Take any person’s set of photos that they have ever put online, anywhere (publicly, via email, etc.), feed it to this back door and yo
by ipv6ipv4 5y ago
It’s a massive backdoor.
Take any person’s set of photos that they have ever put online, anywhere (publicly, via email, etc.), feed it to this back door and you can have their identity and GPS coordinates in fractions of a second.
It’s a horrifying, dystopian tool that should not exist. In any form, for any reason. Nobody can be trusted to be a gatekeeper for something like this.
- ec109685 5y agoApple could already do this server side if they wanted to, right?
- ipv6ipv4 5y agoThey could by implementing the photo hashing on uploaded photos. There probably is a debate to be had on the merits of your phone being used for purposes like this but I think the implementation details pale in comparison to the problems with the mass surveillance tool being created here. It’s clear that the correct solution is to blindly encrypt photos on the user’s phone before uploading them to iCloud. Full stop.
- mproud 5y agoHow many other companies are guilty of much worse?