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Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

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Proweruser@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Like the politicians would have cared. This is just a convenient excuse. Either they would have found another one or they would have said “we can’t trust Apple to scan for this material. The police has to do these scans!”

We were right to oppose it then and we are right to oppose it now.

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Whirlybird@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

We were right to oppose it then and we are right to oppose it now.

You were right to oppose doing it in the most privacy conscious way? Or were you against CSAM scanning at all?

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- jmfwnsfw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It was a government provided list of hashes check against. For me, I don’t like it because I don’t trust 3 letter agencies to not abuse the ability to search every iDevice in the world for arbitrary file hashes.
  
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  - Whirlybird@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It was a database of hashes that were taken from the intersection of multiple country CSAM databases.
    
    Germany couldn’t just put a picture of a nazi in there and have every iPhone flag everyone that has a picture of a nazi on it unless multiple other countries also had that same picture in their CSAM db.
    
    It also only happened when you uploaded the photo to iCloud. Know what they do now instead? Just scan for CSAM on iCloud like google, Microsoft, imgur, Reddit, etc all do.
    
    The end result is the same in detecting CSAM, but the way apple proposed was more secure and valued your privacy more.
    
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