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Yeah what happens when someone abuses this for easy “untraceable” swatting. What if the next iOS malware uploaded some CSAM hashes to iCloud unless you pay 5 bt
by madmod 5y ago
Yeah what happens when someone abuses this for easy “untraceable” swatting. What if the next iOS malware uploaded some CSAM hashes to iCloud unless you pay 5 btc in the next 24 hours?
- r00fus 5y agoThere's also the other side - assuming NCMEC and law enforcement are good actors is a flawed premise (as has been proven time and again). What if the CSAM database has non-CSAM images there, or non-CSAM hashes? One could argue which is more likely, but the fact remains that the entire premise of this system is flawed and it seems the only way to play this game is to not use iCloud photos at all (though it's possible that malware could bypass that and turn on iCloud sync as well as upload the photos too...)
- ezconnect 5y agoThis is to facilitate the easy approval of court orders for the spy agencies to get the content of someones phone. It doesn't matter if the photo is illegal or not.
- nullc 5y agoOne theory I've seen advanced why the claimed reports to the NCMEC are many orders of magnitude larger than the prosecutions is that the conjecture that the whole thing is a CIA operation to collect kompromat on massive numbers of people. The alternative that the database is just stuffed full of non-illegal images seems more likely but I dunno if its that much more comforting.
- selsta 5y agoThis is already possible today on both iCloud Photos and Google Photos. Both scan for CSAM server side.