> Yesterday we saw OnlyFans exit the adult industry. Two weeks ago we saw Apple exit the privacy industry. One of those two statements I disagree with. Apple

> Yesterday we saw OnlyFans exit the adult industry. Two weeks ago we saw Apple exit the privacy industry. One of those two statements I disagree with. Apple exiting the privacy industry would look like this to me: "we've decided from now on that, like almost all other cloud providers, we'll give ourselves access to your stuff for (ahem) legitimate purposes". Not like this: "we'll implement a neuralhash on the client device rather than on the servers, and then do a cryptographic private-set-intersection protocol with them on the server". That's a lot of cost and effort to prevent themselves, as a company, misusing the CSAM detector for other purposes. If there are government agencies involved, Apple is also making sure that they can't just use this as a backdoor to get access to everyone's files, it's as if the government said "we need to prevent child abuse, give us a backdoor" and Apple went "ok we'll give you a small backdoor that's ok at detecting abuse images and nothing more" - if the government was expecting to use the backdoor for more than this, they'll be disappointed. (I'm pretty sure they have other backdoors already, by the way. My guess would be a zero-day on the baseband processor firmware.) I'm not saying I agree or disagree with Apple's latest move, but "exit the privacy industry" feels a bit a strong statement to me. You have less privacy than you did three weeks ago, and an option on even less privacy in the future (but then again Apple could just change the T&C), but you're still better off than with competitors that offer similar functionality.