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Devil's advocate: It may not be mostly big organized crime. It may be hard to fight, because it's not groups. It mostly comes from people close to the families
by loves_mangoes 5y ago
Devil's advocate: It may not be mostly big organized crime.
It may be hard to fight, because it's not groups. It mostly comes from people close to the families, or the families themselves.
Here's a relevant extract sourced from Wikipedia:
"Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances such as friends of the family, babysitters, or neighbours; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.[53] In over one-third of cases, the perpetrator is also a minor.[56]"
Content warning: The WP article contains pictures of abused children.
- thegrimmest 5y agoSure, but the people sharing these images do so in organized groups, often referred to as "rings". I agree it would be very hard to catch a solitary perpetrator abusing children and not sharing the images. However since they would be creating novel images with new hashes, Apple's system wouldn't do much to help catch them would it?
- loves_mangoes 5y agoLet me respond to the "novel images with new hashes" part. Apple's system doesn't use only cryptographic hashes, it seems designed to catch novel images too. There is concern that it will be inaccurate and have a much higher rate of false positive than the 1 in a trillion reported by Apple (as described in the, very thorough, article).