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Actually, HN is, as usual, doing a great job of evaluating and discussing this issue, in real time.
by Bud 5y ago
Actually, HN is, as usual, doing a great job of evaluating and discussing this issue, in real time.
- krapp 5y agoJudging from the threads so far, HN believes Apple is scanning everything using a naive perceptual hash implementation it probably got off of Stack Overflow, with no oversight or sanity checks, and that even a loose match (which will be trivial) means SWAT teams automatically being sent to bust down your front door like the FBI meme, and that it's all just a pretext for CCP style authoritarian surveillance anyway, and we'll all be in dissident reeducation camps by the end of the year. I suppose it's great if you're looking for entertainment value. For rational, informed discussion of the technology and its political and social ramifications, not so much. It's just the same refrain of "we never bother to actually RTFA but we imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever."
- echelon 5y agoI've tagged HN users using a small browser plugin I wrote. It's amusing to see all the Apple users jump to the defense of Apple despite their continued shitty behavior. It's also great to see the handful that have changed their minds.
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