[DSingularity]

This is a good point. I believed that the fact that apple manually reviews the content implies they will compare the images against those in the database. Without the database of content it does imply that outside organizations are uploading hashes to apple and that apple cannot determine the scope of the content.

However, that does not invalidate the fact that apple is in the loop! It’s not just the NCMEC that has to be corrupted - it’s also apple employees. Apple has stated in their whitepaper that they review all flagged content before forwarding to the NCMEC. If the apple employees forward the non-CSAM matches then that is a failure of the reviewers who have betrayed their duty to prevent authoritarian abuse of this system.