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Arguably, scanning on iCloud is precisely the right answer, but in specific circumstances. I figure that cloud storage accessible only to yourself should be co
by rootusrootus 4y ago
Arguably, scanning on iCloud is precisely the right answer, but in specific circumstances. I figure that cloud storage accessible only to yourself should be considered as private as the storage on your own physical device. But when you share content with other people, especially if you share via a publicly reachable URL (not sure if iCloud can even do that, though), then scanning for illegal content is fair game.
- unityByFreedom 4y agoYou understand the person to whom you're replying was nonsensically arguing that cloud-scanning is worse than on-device scanning, right?
- rootusrootus 4y agoI took their argument to be that scanning at all was the problem. I may have misunderstood. I've made way too many comments today on HN, and I should most probably step away from the keyboard. In fact, I'm going to do that for real, my daughter just got home from school and I need to remember priorities.
- ec109685 4y agoIt wasn’t device scanning. A fingerprint of every photo was uploaded to the cloud as metadata for each photo. It’d be like being spooked if the title of the photo is uploaded to the cloud and examined for known csam titles. And to make things more secure, the only way apple could read those fingerprints was if you uploaded 5 csam photos. How is that worse than Google where engineers can look at every photo you upload regardless of the content as part of their server side scanning?