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There are apps, like WhatsApp, that allow you to save photos you receive to your camera roll instantly. If somebody, or another compromised device sends a larg
by avnigo 5y ago
There are apps, like WhatsApp, that allow you to save photos you receive to your camera roll instantly.
If somebody, or another compromised device sends a large collection of CSAM to your device, they will be uploaded to iCloud, probably before you get a chance to remove them -- the equivalent of "swatting".
Besides the apps that you give permission to store photos in your Photos app, what about malware such as Pegasus we've seen again and again?
I wonder if we'll start hearing a year from now about journalists, political dissidents, or even candidates running for office going to jail for being in possession of CSAM. It would be much easier to take out your opponents when you know Apple will report it for you.
I guess all this does is disincentivize anyone who cares about their privacy from using iCloud Photos, which is sadly ironic since privacy is what Apple was going for.
- ribit 5y ago> There are apps, like WhatsApp, that allow you to save photos you receive to your camera roll instantly. Major cloud providers already scan photos for CSAM. So this feature does not change anything in this regard. If you are using cloud photo storage, you can be targeted with this attack no matter whether you use an iPhone, some android Phone or anything else, really.
- nojito 5y agoApple doesn’t. Which is why they focused their research on differential privacy.
- ianai 5y agoIs there some mechanism keeping that from being done through SMS or something equally direct?
- djrogers 5y agoApple is not planning to scan SMS messages with this (that’s a completely separate feature, not related to CSAM fingerprints, and never involves law enforcement), and SMS photos are not automatically added to your iCloud Photo Library.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIf you're a nation-state or a group that wants to sow discord and distrust in another nation's citizens and their neighbors and institutions, what better way to do so by framing people, some significant and some insignificant, with CSAM?