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Is there any good reason to take Apple on their word that all their scanning for is CSAM? How certain can we be that they're not already using this technology s
by kypro 5y ago
Is there any good reason to take Apple on their word that all their scanning for is CSAM? How certain can we be that they're not already using this technology secretly to look for other types of content when the government asks? I doubt they're going to announce every time the government requests they add detection for a new Pepe frog meme and other "far-right" content, and it seems almost inevitable governments will want them to do something like this at some point, if not already.
I feel like we're giving Apple too much trust by labelling this CSAM detection. In reality the technology can (and probably will) be used to detect anything they want to.
- nojito 5y agoThis same logic can be true of any cloud provider that scans indiscriminately.
- kypro 5y agoSure, I guess my point is that calling this CSAM detection is deceptive as the technology itself can (and probably will) be used to detect any type of content. We also have no way to verify Apple are only using the technology currently to scan for CSAM so why give them the benefit of the doubt when they have so many incentives to go beyond CSAM scanning?
- boardwaalk 5y agoAt the same time, they did announce this. How would we know if they put a backdoor in and had said nothing at all? I know there are a lot of eyes on iOS, but if they wanted find a place in the gigabytes of binary blobs to do this quietly, I think they could.