Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 days agoThey were not “suspected” they had to be matches to actual CSAM.
And after that a reduced quality copy was shown to an actual human, not an AI like in Googles case.
So the false positive would slightly inconvenience a human checker for 15 seconds, not get you Swatted or your account closed
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Yeah so here’s the next problem - downscaling attacks exists against those algorithms too.
scaling-attacks.net
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And you’ll again inconvenience a human slightly as they look at a pixelated copy of a picture of a cat or some noise.
No cops are called, no accounts closed
Natanael@infosec.pub 3 days ago
The scaling attack specifically can make a photo sent to you look innocent to you and malicious to the reviewer, see the link above