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Well I had a totally batshit-wild theory so feel free to dismiss this... Remember those NSO iOS security revelations from a few weeks back? It might be quite p

Well I had a totally batshit-wild theory so feel free to dismiss this... Remember those NSO iOS security revelations from a few weeks back? It might be quite possible that the government(s, specifically the US) are handling some information over in exchange for this. It would make sense for Apple to reach out to the government and get information about some of the vulnerabilities in exchange for brownie points, because this CSAM system is totally controllable by Apple while unknown security issues aren't. Now whether Apple designed this only with CSAM and actually ignored/forgot its possible issues.. that's another question.

bitexploder 5y ago
Wouldn't this system have taken more than a few weeks to develop?
- user_7832 5y ago
  Valid point. They might have been developing the tech for a while, perhaps this was an opportune moment to release it? Anyway I'm just making a wild guess (as I had mentioned), and I'm not really sure why people were surprised when something I'd mentioned as a wild theory, was, in fact, a wild theory. I'm almost certainly wrong but it's still a theory.