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by mrangle 1060 days ago
Ignoring the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS, which raises other suspicions.

It takes a lot of unearned trust to to assume that there isn't classified surveillance occurring.

If it is, public virtue signalling about not breaking encryption is theater. As the surveillance occurs prior to encryption.
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elishah 1059 days ago
> Ignoring the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS

Which client side scanning would that be?

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sp332 1059 days ago
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-commun... This scandal about scanning your end-to-end encrypted photos on one of the ends, kinda defeating the purpose and reducing everyone's privacy. It lead directly to the legislation that Apple is coming out against today, which I would call ironic but is very predictable. How dare governments require us to do this thing we already planned to do.
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elishah 1059 days ago
That CSAM detection method was something that apple published a whitepaper about to get feedback. The feedback was strongly negative, so they never implemented it.

I would hope that the grandparent was not referring to this thing that never existed as "the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS."

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