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by tyingq 1778 days ago
>if you don't want to store pictures in clear on your servers

Reading https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 , it seems that Apple may encrypt pictures on their servers, but they have the key. The list of what's actually end-to-end encrypted doesn't include photos. So, they may be scanning on your phone, but they can scan on their servers if they wanted to.
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thw0rted 1778 days ago
I posted more detail upthread but what I've found suggests that Apple does have a key to decrypt pictures but they claim to use it only to respond to a warrant. (They could of course be lying about that, but I don't believe they are.)
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siscia 1778 days ago
I believe the want this update exactly to enable E2E encryption.

In this way the can get rid of the keys on their servers and still find pedo pictures.

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