The irony is, Apple has probably achieved most their goal with the announcement, making the implementation largely redundant. It's worth stopping to consider t

The irony is, Apple has probably achieved most their goal with the announcement, making the implementation largely redundant. It's worth stopping to consider that while Apple's plans were a hot topic for the the civil liberties crowd, that's probably piss in the wind compared to how hard the announcement landed among underground CSAM communities across the globe. I dare say that even the most technically inept CSAM aficionados will be acutely aware of this looming threat and will know to keep that shit far away from any of their Apple devices. (It would be especially ironic if there's now more awareness in those communities of Apple's semi-aborted CSAM scanning than of Google or Facebook's CSAM scanning, which has been operational for many years.)