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> Automatically scanning your stuff and reporting the bad things to the police is like the concept of God always watching. ... like all cloud providers scan yo
by FabHK 5y ago
> Automatically scanning your stuff and reporting the bad things to the police is like the concept of God always watching.
... like all cloud providers scan your stuff and report the bad things (and Apple has not been doing it, but now proposed doing it in a more privacy preserving manner).
- CydeWeys 5y agoThere's a big difference though between cloud providers scanning files stored on their hardware that they own and Apple scanning files on your hardware that you own.
- FabHK 5y agoIs there? It's just running a blinded hashing and private set intersection locally, doesn't even know on device whether something has matched or what.
- mrtksn 5y agoIt is your own device actively checking on you for misbehaving. Completely different from cloud providers checking on renters for misbehaving in their infrastructure. Your phone will listen to instructions from 3.rd parties to check on you and report you to the police(with Apple as a dispatcher).
- FabHK 5y agoWell, no... the cloud provider (Apple in the case of iCloud) will check on you and potentially report you (just like all the other cloud providers do), but without scanning all your files in the cloud (unlike all the other cloud providers). As I said, your phone doesn't even know if anything matched.
- mrtksn 5y agoThe point is, your phone follows instructions from 3rd parties on scanning your data and reporting back the results. It’s processing your files accordingly, with the intent to to make sure you are not doing anything wrong according to those 3rd parties. Your own device is policing you according to the requirements of those 3rd parties.
- intricatedetail 5y agoIt's a difference between police officer on the street and in your home.