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>It's terrible for identifying dissidents because it only catches them if they upload to iCloud servers. This is a configuration change. Without knowing the im
by Nicksil 5y ago
>It's terrible for identifying dissidents because it only catches them if they upload to iCloud servers.
This is a configuration change. Without knowing the implementation, I'd bet a lunch that, for the time-being, the reason this thing is executed only upon upload to iCloud is because there's some simple business logic buried in there telling it to do so.
>Dissidents are much more likely to be tech savvy than random child molesters.
This is a curious argument. You didn't explain why you think this might be. What is it about a dissident that makes him or her more savvy than some random child molester?
>An effctive surveillance mechanism would need to change all of these.
If true, the obstacles you outlined are trivial to overcome.
- simonh 5y ago>This is a configuration change. Not it isn't, the check is built into the upload client, they'd have to implement an on-device storage scanning mechanism. That's a different type of system implemented in a different kind of service. Not that doing that is hard at all, it's not rocket science and they already have full-system indexing and search, but that's also why this isn't a significant step down any kind of technical slippery slope. The problem here is legislative, not technical.