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When the governments of the world demand that Apple become an arm of the dystopia, Apple will comply, and its users will have no choice but to go along with it.
by alwillis 5y ago
When the governments of the world demand that Apple become an arm of the dystopia, Apple will comply, and its users will have no choice but to go along with it.
I would argue that Apple is creating systems so they can't become an arm of the dystopia.
For example, even if a government somehow forced Apple to include non-CSAM hashes to the database, the system only uses hashes from multiple child protection agencies in different jurisdictions where the CSAM is the same.
So Apple only uses the hashes that are the same between org A, B and C and ignores the rest.
This, along with the audibility Apple recently announced and the other features makes it so there's literally nothing counties can do to force Apple to comply with some dystopian nightmare…
Of course, with potentially more open operating systems, it would be trivial by comparison for state actors to create a popular/custom ROM for Android that's backdoored.
- treis 5y ago>I would argue that Apple is creating systems so they can't become an arm of the dystopia. For the life of me I can't see how catching child molesters is part of a dystopia.
- patmcc 5y agoOne way to catch child molesters would be to have everyone wear a body cam at all times. Would that be dystopian enough for you?