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No one is going to send gray blobs, they will be finding legal porn (like pussy close ups, tongue pics, whatever) and then disturbing it to trigger a CSAM hit.
by dannyw 5y ago
No one is going to send gray blobs, they will be finding legal porn (like pussy close ups, tongue pics, whatever) and then disturbing it to trigger a CSAM hit.
The low res derivative will match, perhaps even closely, because pussy closeups look similar to an apple employee when its grayscale 64 by 64 pixels (remember: it's illegal for Apple to transmit CSAM, so it must be so visually degraded to the point where it's arguably not visual).
The victim will get raided, be considered a paedophile by their workplace, media, and family, and perhaps even go into jail.
The attacker in this case can be users of Pegasus unhappy with a journalist.
- cyanite 5y agoThere is a lot of speculation about things that haven’t happened in that comment.
- FabHK 5y agoOk, so you posit an attacker could find/generate 30+ pictures that are 1. accepted by innocent user, 2. flagged as known CSAM by NeuralHash, 2b. also flagged by the second algorithm Apple will run over flagged images server side as known CSAM, 3. apparently CSAM in the "visual derivative". That strikes me as a rather remote scenario, but worth investigating. Having said that, if it's a 3-letter adversary using Pegasus unhappy with a journalist, couldn't they just put actual CSAM onto the journalist's phone? And couldn't they have done that for many years?