This is one of the most common misunderstandings, both when people are arguing for or against. People who understand tech well enough to recognize hashes like

This is one of the most common misunderstandings, both when people are arguing for or against. People who understand tech well enough to recognize hashes like MD5 and SHA don't dive deep enough to understand that this is something completely different. I even suspect this is deliberate from Apple's side when announcing and talking about these changes - making people wrongly believe that only exact matches will trigger, except possibly in extremely rare cases and under concious attacks. They could have called it "fingerprint" or something but deliberately went with a technical term that even confuses technical people who know well enough what a hash usually means. Vice is falling victim to this misunderstanding stemming from the conflation of "hash".