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It’s just the continuation of the irony: Apple is also the only really popular consumer cloud provider with a proper e2e implementation, so they can’t scan phot
by strogonoff 5y ago
It’s just the continuation of the irony: Apple is also the only really popular consumer cloud provider with a proper e2e implementation, so they can’t scan photos in iCloud. It’s why they had to implement this process in the first place.
Some of Apple’s management must ponder that if only they didn’t go to such lengths in denying themselves access to user data, they’d have it so much easier—given no other takers of such a challenge among mid- to high-end device manufacturers, we all would probably have settled for e2e just never being a feature of commonly available cloud services. I wonder how successful the privacy-focused promotion had been for Apple; they seemed pretty OK making people want their devices for all the other reasons.
- ric2b 5y ago> only really popular consumer cloud provider with a proper e2e implementation, so they can’t scan photos in iCloud. This is wrong, photos (and most data on iCloud) is not e2e: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
- strogonoff 5y agoI stand corrected, they do have e2ee but not in Photos/iCloud at this point. Then I suppose the only reason for them to have gone for all this complexity is to invalidate an excuse law enforcement could use to access user data left and right. (LE: Show us all the photos so we know who’s bad! A: We have a reliable system that auto-reports, see paper, therefore this is unjustified and we’ll sue.)