[cyanite]

I hope not, since doing the scans like this offers much more privacy for the user. Even when the user is too ignorant (sorry) to realize this.

But this will be evident by reading and understanding the technical description.

[spoonjim]

I'm not concerned with this system -- I'm concerned with the things that governments will now start to force Apple (and any computer vendor) to start scanning for on the client side. Once the client side scanning Rubicon is crossed, countries will want vendors to scan everything (not just iCloud folders) for everything (not just CSAM).