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To make it even worse they extended the functionality to Mac OSX. WTF???
by aNoob7000 5y ago
To make it even worse they extended the functionality to Mac OSX. WTF???
- cassianoleal 5y agoDo you have references for this? I must have missed this part.
- Xylakant 5y agohttps://www.apple.com/child-safety/ https://www.apple.com/child-safety/, at the bottom lists macOS as target platform.
- cassianoleal 5y agoIt's unclear exactly what this means to be honest. Which is not less scary but more. This sentence: > Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online seems to suggest that the hash-matching happens only on iOS and iPadOS. The rest of the text OTOH suggests many things happen across all types of devices and OSs. Regardless, this seems very bad.
- YokoSix 5y agoMy guess is that they're going to put it into the macOS Photos app. Those images are already scanned for people, animals and objects so it should be easy for them to implement the child protection database there.
- aethertron 5y agoWon't implementing this on macOS make it too easy to reverse engineer? Think the hashes are supposed to be secret. ETA: Apple quote: "unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices". Unreadable, unleakable, no doubt uninterpretable... unless someone reverses them to get a blurry 'visual proxy' collection.
- freeopinion 5y agoHow is this worse? Any Apple device you thought you owned and controlled was never under your control. You were wrong. Perhaps your understanding of the situation has changed so that you better understand how bad it is. But the situation isn't worse.