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by zionic 5y ago
I’m not interested in Apple’s newspeak definition of “E2EE” (where they are between the ends) or “Privacy” (terms and restrictions may apply). I want the real thing.
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by zionic 5y ago
Seems so, our corporate media is largely comprised of cowards and pay-for-play. Most media is deeply unprofitable, and it compensates for this by taking payment for ads disguised as organic content (have first hand experience with this that
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by zionic 5y ago
This makes sense, iCloud can just be blocked with the rest of the malware domains. For fun corporate and university IT types can start adding iCloud-related domains to their internal blacklists.
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by zionic 5y ago
My understanding is the primary role of Swift actors is to support safe global state in an async environment. I plan to use actors enums for states in my next major app version release. Or at least I was, until Apple decided to backdoor the
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by zionic 5y ago
And what about the hundreds of millions of people that enable iCloud by default thanks to Apple’s dark patterns, does their privacy not matter?
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by zionic 5y ago
Due to existing laws, Apple will be forced to make their human reviewers be active LEOs. Their approval/report rate will make a FISA court judge blush.
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by zionic 5y ago
Normally as techies we’d get these texts from friends and tell them everything will be ok. Except this time we’re mad too, and we tell them it’s way worse than they even know. Apple fucked up big time.
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by zionic 5y ago
Removing iCloud does not remove the scanner or it’s database full of hashes. Limiting the scanner to iCloud is a policy decision one NSL away from changing.
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by zionic 5y ago
I only had a few thousand APPL, so I’m a small fry in the big scheme of things. I sold every share the day they announced this.
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by zionic 5y ago
Because of this interview I’ve added Craig to my mental list of executives who need to lose their job over this little stunt of theirs. Apple has spent billions in engineering and marketing to establish themselves as the privacy leader, all
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by zionic 5y ago
Disabling iCloud does not remove the scanner from your device though, it is always there waiting for any other API to call it and begin scanning. Apple promising not to use the scanner is a weak promise they know they can’t keep (NSLs)
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by zionic 5y ago
This is the hill to make the anti-privacy tyrants die on.
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by zionic 5y ago
It’s simple, the reviewers will be cops (so viewing CP is legal). They will pass on/hit report at rates that make a FISA judge blush.
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by zionic 5y ago
China: here’s our database and here is one for Hong Kong. They’re totally separate we promise.
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by zionic 5y ago
NCMEC is literally just the feds, with a few civilian employees.
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by zionic 5y ago
This is false information, the scanning system is highly generalized to finding any type of photo via fuzzy matched perceptual hashes. It can target a pride flag just as easily as CP.
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by zionic 5y ago
Yes it does, it uses fuzzy perceptual hashes not crypto hashes. So if your innocent baby pic looks similar enough to a previously tagged child abuse image then YES, it will flag you and send a copy to the feds. And before you correct me, th
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by zionic 5y ago
Because no one in their right mind uploads CP to a cloud service, and apparently pedos abuse Facebook’s easy sign up process to bulk upload CP. Not that it matters when those Facebook sign ups are probably proxied with throwaway emails
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by zionic 5y ago
The design more plausible enables total device surveillance than questionable iCloud Backups. (I refuse to call a backdoored setup E2EE)
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by zionic 5y ago
Parents take a lot of photos of their kid. Like, lots .
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by zionic 5y ago
Disabling iCloud does not remove the scanning system or it’s database from your phone.
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by zionic 5y ago
You don’t. That’s the entire point of E2EE, the data transferred is private between you and the recipient party.
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by zionic 5y ago
Decentralization as well. 10 years ago your average conservative didn't even know that word, and now the big tech monoculture has taught huge portions of them why using distributed, decentralized systems is important.
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by zionic 5y ago
> There's no indication you get arrested if they find something Yes, you are. > it isn't reported directly to FBI NCMEC is the FBI. >Apple will just disable your account, and there is an appeals process to restore it if t
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by zionic 5y ago
Interesting that you chose to so thoroughly explore such a heinous site when all you had to do was image it and provide a copy to the authorities. More interesting that you then depict its graphic content in such detail here. Perhaps a thor
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by zionic 5y ago
The argument is could this new system result in a court ordering a blanket "send us the backups for anyone who gets a match for any reason" order from some court. This is highly likely in my opinion.
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by zionic 5y ago
They are also redefining "Privacy" to mean "only you, the person you're talking to, and Apple know". /r/apple has a large number of robots suggesting "on device scanning is more private!"
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by zionic 5y ago
Apple failed to deploy E2EE iCloud because the FBI asked nicely (with a wrench in hand probably). The leading narrative on /r/apple is now that "oh this invasive spyware has to exist so that apple can do E2EE iCloud", wh
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by zionic 5y ago
Apple has unlimited access now, all that stands in their way is the thinnest of policy lines.
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by zionic 5y ago
Lets go one step further, Apple is a content producer with multiple streaming services now. Using this system to look for unlicensed content will be irresistible to them.

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