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Your link and most of the concern is about known CSAM detection announced for iCloud Photo Library, yet, again, 2/3rds of the original letter was about iMessage
by shuckles 5y ago
Your link and most of the concern is about known CSAM detection announced for iCloud Photo Library, yet, again, 2/3rds of the original letter was about iMessage. Point me to the expert consensus that the parental control features announced were a threat to end to end encryption.
The iMessage feature is a parental control feature where kids over 13 receiving on-device classified sensitive images have to click through to unblur them, and kids under 13 will do the same and also have their parents receive a notification that such an action was taken. The parent in any case does not receive a copy of the image. The EFF described it as such:
“Whatever Apple Calls It, It’s No Longer Secure Messaging”
and
“Apple is planning to build a backdoor into…its messaging system.”
The Center for Democracy and Technology who wrote this letter they have co-signed said:
“Plan to replace its industry-standard encrypted messaging system creates new risks in US and globally”
I, respectfully, don’t see much evidence that these are consensus views. Furthermore, I don’t see how you can characterize this feature as a back door without believing safe browsing checks on links received in iMessage is an encryption back door.