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The big difference is that cloud providers do the scanning on their own infrastructure. If you don't want something scanned, you don't upload it to the could, t
by grishka 5y ago
The big difference is that cloud providers do the scanning on their own infrastructure. If you don't want something scanned, you don't upload it to the could, that simple. But here, your own device is snitching on you.
- UncleMeat 5y agoBut the discussion at hand is about malicious actors causing innocent people to trip the alarms. Given the clear capabilities of tools like Pegasus, "just don't enable cloud syncing" is obviously not sufficient to protect against a malicious actor who wants to plant illegal content on your device and trip the alarms.
- hannasanarion 5y agoOK, and so what? "Tripping the alarms" in this case means somebody looks at the pictures that were put on your device without your knowledge, sees that they're all grey blobs, and flags it as a false alarm, case closed.
- cyanite 5y agoNo. Only pictures being uploaded to iCloud Photo Library are being scanned.