This is truly mind-boggling because it’s Apple and such an important topic. We are right to expect better from these bright people. It worries me that Sarah Ga

This is truly mind-boggling because it’s Apple and such an important topic. We are right to expect better from these bright people. It worries me that Sarah Gardner seems to be truthful when she hints at that no one at Apple reached out to her after Apple killed the plan in December 2022. She must have also missed articles like the one at The Verge [1]. Gardner’s message to Tim is dated 2023-08-30 03:24:37 (CEST). Erik Neuenschwander's reply was printed out 2023-08-31 14:41:00 (probably PDT). So that’s a period of about 44 hours that the print out [0] represents. It would be helpful to know the time when Apple’s reply was sent to deduce whether Apple had time for additional deliberations before writing the email to Gardner. Regardless, as reported by The Verge they obviously had deliberations shortly after the public outcry, killed the plan in December 2022, and then presumably failed to inform Gardner about the reasons. If that’s the case, far smaller companies have checks and balances in place to keep that from happening. [0]: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23933180/apple-letter-to-heat-initiative.pdf https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23933180/apple-letter... [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans-dropped-eff-ncmec-cdt-reactions https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans...