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by joshstrange 1780 days ago
> So every iPhone will now host the explicit images from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children database.

It's hashes, not the images themselves.

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And how did the user end up with the hashes? He hashed the original images which he then deleted, your honor!

BTW this is going to be a major target for smearing people that the US doens't like

I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous thing I've read today. Hashes have never and probably will never be used "smear" someone the US doesn't like. We can speculate about them planting evidence but trying to prosecute based on hashes baked into the OS used by millions? That's absurd.