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Apple speaks out against bill that could mandate CSAM scanning in iMessage

• echelon_musk 3y ago
  > Apple called encryption “a critical capability that protects the privacy of journalists, human rights activists, and diplomats.” Another lost opportunity to assert that encryption protects the privacy of ordinary citizens. Edit: I didn't read TFA and this is asserted in the next paragraph...
• eimrine 3y ago
  > The government has previously said: "Tech companies have a moral duty to ensure they are not blinding themselves and law enforcement to the unprecedented levels of child sexual abuse on their platforms." And what moral duties has a government?
• EA-3167 3y ago
  Why not live in literal glass houses? After all walls and doors can hide child abuse behind them. Why not have a government agent appointed to watch each family? At what point do we accept that the total elimination of a crime is not a goal compatible with a decent life for the other 99.9% of us? Where does this argument end exactly? And how many perverts are using such insecure tools to share their crap? I would (perhaps incorrectly) assume that people engaging in a fairly high-risk crime wouldn't use something like iMessage or the Apple Cloud.
• beardyw 3y ago
  Even if this is a stalking horse, it seems to me that the only approach is to take their issue seriously and propose a means of mitigation which provides an acceptable level of security for everyone else. If that can't be done I think sadly the argument will be lost.