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He didn't get off to a good start in the interview - his initial explanation of hashes and safety vouchers was full of stuttering, and it's only through Joanna
by sylens 5y ago
He didn't get off to a good start in the interview - his initial explanation of hashes and safety vouchers was full of stuttering, and it's only through Joanna Stern's animations and explanations that you get what the intent is.
He tries to emphasize the distinction that this hash generation and comparison process only occurs when the file is about to be uploaded to iCloud, but I have to ask - who is manually choosing each individual photo that they want to upload to iCloud? Most people just toggle on the setting to automatically upload everything.
I would've liked to see questions in this interview about what type of security testing they have done regarding these features, both internally and in combination with NCMEC.
What I still don't get is why they do not allow the user to choose between this on-device hash generation and comparison, and the in-cloud scanning that other cloud providers are already doing.
- hypothesis 5y agoHe was desperately trying to reframe this away from “your iPhone” doing it and into “iCloud” doing it, but that requires a lot of mental gymnastics and nerdy terms. And so that whole premise of Apple conflating multiple systems in one release is making it really hard for him to explain it away. I’m waiting for next episode where they should try to explain “Synthetic Match Vouchers” and how they increase your CP count…