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by ndr 1777 days ago
> There's always GPG and a whole litany of other tools and apps for those who know what they are doing in terms of privacy.

And it's always there also for whoever they claim to want to catch, so this measure is useless.

This is not protecting anyone, Apple might very well be anticipating the regulation, but that does not automatically deserve our praise. We should fight against this implementation and any regulation requiring similar measures.
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comeonseriously 1777 days ago
> And it's always there also for whoever they claim to want to catch, so this measure is useless.

Right. This will, a) catch the low hanging fruit type of criminal and b) keep honest people honest while forcing them to give up something for nothing.

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ndr 1777 days ago
c) non-trivial chance it will be used for something much worse than what (a) & (b) fix, without solving the main issue

That risk is not tiny, can you imagine any authoritarian government asking a compliant Apple to remove inconvenient pictures?

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