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What’s always so interesting about this then is what’s the point? Apple catches the least sophisticated of criminals who don’t know how to turn off iCloud (like
by RC_ITR 4y ago
What’s always so interesting about this then is what’s the point? Apple catches the least sophisticated of criminals who don’t know how to turn off iCloud (likely the least harmful nodes in this network of horror)?
And to accomplish that all we have to put up with is a huge lack of privacy and tons of false positives?
- unityByFreedom 4y agoThe point of encryption is obviously privacy.
- RC_ITR 4y agoThe question was obviously “What’s the point of only scanning the cloud?”
- unityByFreedom 4y agoI don't understand your question. Are you arguing in favor of on-device scanning? Or arguing against all scanning? Perhaps easier, what do you think they should be doing?
- RC_ITR 4y agoYea? Either commit and say “scanning for CSAM is the top priority” and scan on device or say “privacy is the top priority” and don’t scan at all. I’m literally saying this halfway path is the worst of both worlds, since people still lose privacy, but very little meaningful progress against csam will be made.
- theshrike79 4y agoThe point was to encrypt all iCloud data so that Apple could not give access to it to authorities. Now the authorities can go "there might be CP in there, think of the children!" and a judge will give them the warrant. On-device check agains KNOWN CP checksums + E2EE encrypted iCloud -> authorities need to get the actual phone, they can't just go looking around on people's iCloud accounts to see if they might find something.