>This is a strawman. Identifying novel CSAM is a very hard problem to do accurately - the reason they can't flip the switch is because they don't have the techn

>This is a strawman. Identifying novel CSAM is a very hard problem to do accurately - the reason they can't flip the switch is because they don't have the technical capability. All of the other things people are concerned about are things that apple does have the capability to do. You just used this as an argument against this system. Why do you fear this if you don't think Apple can even accomplish this technologically? >It seems the vast majority of people in this thread disagree that this line is arbitrary. I would argue that people who believe that this decision crossed that line were being naïve to not have always known this was a possibility. I don't think this move brings us any closer to Apple scanning our devices for anti-government memes or whatever the fear is because what was stopping that was always more policy than technology. Also to go back to your earlier comment, in the time since you posted it has now been revealed that this system needs to trigger 30 times before any action is taken. The odds of 30+ false positives is likely verging on impossible.