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> Queue people (4chan) essentially DDOS'ing that infrastructure by turning harmless memes into false positives and distributing them widely. They'll probably au
by maratc 5y ago
> Queue people (4chan) essentially DDOS'ing that infrastructure by turning harmless memes into false positives and distributing them widely. They'll probably automate it too. The chance they won't do such a thing is about 0.01% - if they haven't already
That's a very optimistic view.
In reality, they need to automate something while they never get any feedback whatsoever if their efforts are successful, let alone worthwhile.
Crooks that attack Paypal at least know when they succeed - they see the money. In this case, not only they won't see the money, they won't know if what they're doing is "overwhelming" the system or not.
- quitit 5y agoWhat also seems to be missed is that it’s trivial to foil such attacks in an automated way. The work required on Apple’s end would be smaller than that of the attackers. Complaints about the proposal seem to overly focus on the reliability of singular aspects of the automated detection system when this has already been planned for - additionally those comments seem entirely unaware of the threshold technology in play.