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I don't doubt that a case that involved scanning for CSAM on their own property wasn't found to be a violation of someone's 4th amendment rights. One of the cases cited is United States v. Ackerman that did involve a case r
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It's also illegal to operate a meth lab in your basement, but the government would still be required to have probable cause to grant a warrant to look in your house without your permission. You don't start with the premise that ev
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The legislative branch might try to do something but it’d inevitably be tested in our judicial system. We can only speculate how the courts might rule in such cases but in just a philosophical sense there is no argument here.
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> A system that has users reporting content themselves relies on the users acting to incriminate other people, and the criminals can simply improve their privacy by hiding the content out of public view. Isn't this in itself a win f
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> You said they should add a reporting mechanism, that won't stop anything because if a person already has knowledge that this content is being shared, they could just report it to the authorities. There is no reason to report it to
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> I don't want to get into a semantic debate about the word "actively". Suffice it to say that some people don't want to work on a product or support a company that they know is enabling criminal behavior while also r
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> "They don't need to worry about it" may be enough for you, but it is not a satisfactory moral answer for a lot of people. It shouldn't be tough to understand that some people don't want to actively enable illeg
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> What if the police come to Apple with a warrant? Should Apple have the responsibility to reveal the user's content to authorities? If they lack the capability to do so then they don't need to worry about it. > Part of the
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No, they shouldn't scan data. Apple's role is not the police and they don't have the responsibility or moral imperative to scan for illegal imagery on their customers' phones. In fact it's the opposite. They should
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This is a consequence of the NHS existing, though. It's one of the genuinely big downsides to having public healthcare where quality of care will coincide with the controlling government's support and/or aptitude for governin
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I think that you're not looking closely enough at the underlying issues of these systems if your only metric is people don't go broke from a snake bite, or more broadly, they don't pay immediate upfront costs for their health
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The American healthcare system is exceptionally bad when you compare it against the United States' relative wealth, for sure; the rest of the world hasn't solved healthcare, though. Even if you zoom in on the few countries most pe
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> Can someone with more familiarity explain why some drugs need to be “administered by physicians”? There is no need, this is purely regulatory capture at work. > Why can’t patients self administer Probably because it's expensive
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Roughly thirty images is the threshold for the system to activate, but would they need to review all thirty images to pass it on or would they just need to verify one image looks visually like CSAM in order to pass it along? It seems unlike
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I won't comment too much on the politics of this as it's almost certainly going to incite a flame war, but I'd like to acknowledge that regardless of whether you think this was the right decision or not, we are now living wit
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Regulatory capture and patent laws are pretty big inhibitors to competing with massive pharmaceutical companies generally speaking.
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The sort of questions about 4A protections here haven't really been tested. Third party doctrine might not apply in this circumstance and the court is slowly evolving with the times.
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This is a false dichotomy that is being pushed constantly online. E2EE is possible without this tech and in fact is only useful without tech like this to act as a MITM.
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This report doesn't actually disagree with my assessment and in fact largely reinforces it. Cherry-picking one line that is contemplating on the motives behind Afghans celebrating the Taliban's intervention is not an argument agai
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Sort of. In a vacuum it can certainly function that way, but people in reality don't necessarily have the time to distill pure water from poisoned wells, especially when there's a well that is reputably pure right next to it. That
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This is 100% spin. Bacha Bazi existed before, during, and after the Taliban's reign. Not only that, there were plenty of circumstances where the victims were charged with homosexuality crimes during the Taliban's reign instead of
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There is some new information in this interview, notably that Craig actually gives a rough number to the amount of positive hashes required to flag them for review on iCloud is approximately 30 images. I don't think this had been menti
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Apple Executive Defends Tools to Fight Child Porn, Acknowledges Privacy Backlash(wsj.com)
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That's certainly true, and it is a strong 'selling point,' so to speak, for open software. But openness is just one feature of many that people use for making considerations about the sort of software they run and frankly, fo
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That is technically true but in a real very practical sense everyone here using OSS absolutely is trusting a third party because they are not auditing every bit of code they run. For less technical people there is effectively zero differenc
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Right, which is why there's no bite behind their remarks about resisting government imposition. They could have implemented E2EE and fought the government about it openly, but they didn't. Now, I really doubt the only reason they
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No, there's no regulation or law requiring this sort of action. Everyone is speculating it is Apple's response to a foreseen future where there are laws requiring such technology to preserve some amount of privacy, but it absolute
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XQuartz and GTK apps on MacOS are the exception. A bigger problem with regards to inconsistent UI/UX stems from Electron apps and apps like Firefox which implement its own context menus, for example, and don't interact with the OS
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On device hash generation is 'scanning local files.' The fact that this process is only initiated by being flagged to being uploaded to iCloud doesn't change the fact that it is being done on-device, and increases the capacit
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Changing it up is really important for certain. In fact ergonomic advice for dealing with carpal tunnel syndrome is going to contradict advice for dealing with ulnar tunnel syndrome.

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