Apple isn't law enforcement. Of course it's not their place to be stopping the sexual exploitation of children. They're selling storage devices. Has anyone ever

Apple isn't law enforcement. Of course it's not their place to be stopping the sexual exploitation of children. They're selling storage devices. Has anyone ever suggested that closet and basement makers should install covert scanners to make sure no one is hiding kidnapping victims, that automakers should put scanners in the trunks to make sure nobody is hauling off murder victims to bury, that makers of filing cabinets should install scanners to ensure you're not storing photos of known exploited children in your filing cabinet? Why is this topic treated so differently when the devices become networked? We could just as easily tap every phone line in the world and zoom in on some region where a child was just reported kidnapped and flag all people who say their name over a phone line, but we don't do that, and no one in their right mind would find that acceptable. The police need probable cause and a warrant before they can install a listening device on your phone line. They don't pre-surveil everyone to flag potential criminals before they become known by other means. I don't understand why software services are held to such a lower privacy standard than every other form of storage and communication we have. And to specifically answer the question of what they can do. When the police come with a warrant because they have good reason to suspect some customer X is storing and/or transmitting child porn, then transmit a covert over the air update to that customer's device and that customer's device only, scanning photos on-device before they get encrypted for iCloud backup. Don't push the surveillance update to every single customer on the planet before they're under any suspicion and this suspicion has been certified by a judge just in case.