[macintux]

> Then spread this image on the web, and incriminate everybody.

You'd still have to generate several images and persuade people to download multiple of them into their photo roll. And as I understand it there's yet another layer of Apple employees to review the photo metadata before it ever makes its way to law enforcement.

[RHSeeger]

That does seem like an interesting protest vector, though. Generate a bunch of images that match CSAM images but are mundane. Then have everyone download them and send them to their cloud. Someone then needs to spend resources determining that the images are _not_ actual matches. Basically, a DDOS attack on the functionality.

[macintux]

Indeed, that thought occurred to me as well.

It's a risky bet, though: if somehow that intermediate layer fails and you find yourself locked up and accused of storing/disseminating CSAM material, it's not like the civil rights era when your friends and neighbors (and hopefully employers) will understand you've been arrested for a peaceful protest.

[esyir]

The smarter, if potentially less ethical solution is to encode such images and make memes with them. One of them going viral is likely to flag an enormous number of people along the way.

[tomjen3]

>several images and persuade people to download multiple of them into their photo roll.

I believe such images are called "Dank Memes" these days.