If you read old spy novels, you'll read that one way foreign spies recruit domestic spies is by first asking them to do innocuous stuff ("send us some newspaper

If you read old spy novels, you'll read that one way foreign spies recruit domestic spies is by first asking them to do innocuous stuff ("send us some newspaper clippings"). Once they have them doing that, it is easier to get them to break the law and pass over _real_ secrets. In other words, "just the tip". This move by Apple is the proverbial tip. Eventually you can bet Apple will let governments upload not just hashes of CSAM, but "hashes" of faces they'd like to monitor. Or objects in images (maybe weapons, or chemicals, etc.) I am so glad I don't use any Apple products.