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It might be hard to understand, but iOS is a blackbox. Based on what they add and say, we still don't know what exactly is happening. All we have is trust. We c
by nicce 5y ago
It might be hard to understand, but iOS is a blackbox. Based on what they add and say, we still don't know what exactly is happening. All we have is trust. We can speculate that with "what ifs", but same "if" is applying already.
Once we take other big platforms on account, Apple is actually trying to note privacy. Other platforms just scan everything you put in cloud, but Apple tries to limit the information what they acquire, by scanning it on device. And based on their specification, they scan locally only what is going into the cloud. It took me a while to realize, but this is improvement for what has been happening in the industry for years already.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoThis is an interesting point. I think you might be right.
- sanjiwatsuki 5y agoIIRC, Apple was already scanning iCloud server-side for CSAM [0] so I'm not sure if that excuse holds. [0] https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-content/ https://www.macobserver.com/analysis/apple-scans-uploaded-co...
- nicce 5y agoThey did not scan everything. Only suspected ones, this expands scope to everyone by default. But this is still improvement. We might see followup as added E2EE services which was not possible before.
- croutonwagon 5y agoSo are they only scanning things you specifically upload to iCloud, aka if you disable iCloud and photo syncing you are fine. Or does that include ancillary data like images in iMessage chats (even if you have iCloud data basically shut off) I read the scans were done on device but prior to upload. Just unclear what that really means to me.