> It's also weird how Apple has chosen to intentionally insert itself into the investigation pipeline rather than just let NCMEC handle it like all other cloud

> It's also weird how Apple has chosen to intentionally insert itself into the investigation pipeline rather than just let NCMEC handle it like all other cloud providers. Apple seems to design systems like this so that there are multiple parties involved, in order to require coordination to abuse the system and to prevent attempted abuses of the system from becoming public knowledge. Until independent review, Apple/reviewers has not seen if the input hash actually corresponds to CSAM.