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No it’s not stupid. They are planning to scan your offline on-device files hashing against a secret list. That’s ridiculous and unacceptable.
by burner556 5y ago
No it’s not stupid. They are planning to scan your offline on-device files hashing against a secret list. That’s ridiculous and unacceptable.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoOn device files that were going to iCloud, no files that were not intended for iCloud, no scanning if you do not use iCloud, using a list stored on your device.
- burner556 5y ago“Only files intended for upload to iCloud” They pinky swear! What is the purpose of this infrastructure? Why not just scan on iCloud? This smells like rotten fish.
- shmoe 5y agoThey already do.. they wanted to move that device side so they could allow encrypted backups without them having the key, and thus unable to respond to law enforcement. That was the plan here..
- pseudalopex 5y agoApple didn't claim that was the plan at the time. No law stops them from encrypting backups anyway.
- shmoe 5y agoAnd that's how we get an FBI order to create a hacked version of iOS that allows unlimited passcode guesses in succession.
- pseudalopex 5y agoWhat law do you believe would let them do that? Why wouldn't it let them order Apple to scan everything on an iPhone? Or force it to back up without encryption?
- shmoe 5y ago.. you know it already happened once right?
- burner556 5y agoSad that they just can’t do that anyways. What happened to privacy? They need to justify things about preventing child porn to people for reasons? Fuck this government. They will use children and terrorists as an excuse to do whatever they want. Whenever you hear because Terrorism or because the children, watch out!
- shmoe 5y agosame "secret" list every other provider you've uploaded a file to uses.
- ohCh6zos 5y agoRight, it's also unacceptable there. A growing ability for governments to ask "Does any device contain "X" is a threat to privacy.