Comment on Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy

• phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not very useful for much else. It only find known copies of existing CSAM. It doesn’t detect new ones. Governments could already force Apple to do whatever they want, so it’s a keep to say this is going to do much more.

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  • mahony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You go way out of your way to lick Apples boot here. With comparing hashes to whatever Apple wants/is told to, you can profile everyone, find leaked material the gov doesnt want you to have and so on. The fact that people just accept it, or endorse it is beyond me, but again, after the last 3 years I came to the conclusion that most people are scared to be free.

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    • phillaholic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      While scanning for leaked government documents is the first thing I’ve heard that could be a problem for whistleblowers, I’ll point out this scanning tech is already in use in major cloud platforms and no government has forced anyone to do it. Having a database of all government documents like that wouldn’t be trivial to put together either. It’s just not practical to be used that way.

      I don’t care that it was Apple who did this, it presents a legitimate answer to E2E encryption of data while cutting many government arguments off at the legs. Without an answer we are closer to E2E being made illegal then we are nothing happening.

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      • mahony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, thats why I dont use cloud and have a degoogled android. The problem is that this is a slippery slope. I can say I dont mind because it doesnt affect me, but step by step they outlaw anything else, even custom roms and alternative app stores. Either people are against it, or this will get much worse down the line.

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