I can actually see it as something that encourages parents to have fewer qualms about giving their kids iPhones. I don't know how the thing works but if it make

I can actually see it as something that encourages parents to have fewer qualms about giving their kids iPhones. I don't know how the thing works but if it makes it annoying for my kids to take/send nudes, then great. Edit: I guess at worst Apple's just sending a cryptographic hash of unencrypted data so that the known childporn can be flagged. It's basically like sending a hashdeep record of the data. It's an interesting concept with at lot of implications for tracing the spread of files within networks without knowing what they contain. Presumably if it was expanded to all files in cloud storage then LE could say something like "Give be a list of everyone that has object XDFAECXDZE" when LE knows that XDFAECXDZE is Catcher_in_the_Rye.pdf and Apple does not.