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by selsta 1777 days ago
> Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy. CSAM detection will help Apple provide valuable information to law enforcement on collections of CSAM in iCloud Photos.

The CSAM scanning is only getting added to iOS and iPadOS. If it does getting added to Mac at some point it will be part of Photos.app, not the general OS.
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nicce 1777 days ago
People are forgetting here that MacOS is already scanning all your unknown files (not only images) and sending hashes into the cloud.

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

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nbzso 1777 days ago
Not forgetting. "Now, it’s been possible up until today to block this sort of stuff on your Mac using a program called Little Snitch (really, the only thing keeping me using macOS at this point)."

I use Little Snitch from version 2. The last MacOs on our company (and personal) computers is Catalina 10.15.7. Switching production to Linux is planned for the near future. We don't care about "how powerful and beautiful is M1" or how "iPhone 13 will break sells records".

The normalization of digital surveillance and digital police state is everywhere. As people that create consumer technologies we take a stance and inform our customers about this and help them make rational decisions for the future.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter have historically unprecedented power over people.

Governments are caring more about using this power over people instead of protecting human rights.

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selsta 1777 days ago
OCSP isn't "scanning". It checks if a certificate is revoked.

https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

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nicce 1776 days ago
My source was bad, scanning is related to antivirus and is better explained on here: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/28/how-notarization-works/
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nbzso 1776 days ago
Read the actual quote from Apple; https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.* End please, don't be naive. We all are guilty of projecting emotions over corporate marketing tricks and behaving like a children when given a shiny toys.
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hosteur 1777 days ago
No one knows. They could make it part of the os. They could even hide the fact that it is there. Like the intel ME stuff. I am switching to Linux for desktop.
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