[HN Gopher] Apple Kills Plans to Scan for CSAM in iCloud
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Apple Kills Plans to Scan for CSAM in iCloud
Author : ashton314
Score : 62 points
Date : 2022-12-07 18:32 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
| satvikpendem wrote:
| Have they actually killed it? Or will they resurrect it once the
| media frenzy dies down?
| concinds wrote:
| The media frenzy died down a year and a half ago. They
| announced it's dead for good.
| [deleted]
| mikece wrote:
| Apple wins points for being less evil than Google but I'm not
| going to abandon my Graphene OS phone for an iPhone anytime soon.
| testfrequency wrote:
| Apple wins points for pretending to be less evil, where as
| Google just owns their business model in clear day
| spanktheuser wrote:
| I'd love if there was someplace we could go to test this
| assertion instead of relying on unbacked statements.
|
| I'm not saying it's untrue, but there is a lot of ambiguity
| in this claim as things stand. Are you referring to abuse of
| their monopoly power to censor speech? Abuse of same to
| compromise human rights? Nefarious trickery to subvert their
| own security model? Use of forced labor to assemble devices?
| Each is its own form of evil; the evidence for each ranges
| from beyond doubt to (afaik) non-existent; typing them out
| every time one wishes to discuss apple is daunting.
| jfghi wrote:
| Can you describe your phone and software setup? I've installed
| lineage before but lately have been a little stuck deciding on
| my next open phone. I'd like to be able to install microg. I
| don't plan on necessarily using this as a daily phone all phone
| but have some medical automations that rely on Bluetooth and in
| a perfect world could have some water resistance or
| waterproofing.
| throwaway349902 wrote:
| They needed to release pro-privacy news to balance out the bad
| press re: AirDrop in China.
| ashton314 wrote:
| > Children can be protected without companies combing through
| personal data
|
| Darn right they can.
| unsupp0rted wrote:
| ... until a couple years from now, when the backlash has died
| down and Apple feels the government heat again and forgets they
| ever said this.
| mikestew wrote:
| Ah, the ever-popular "just you wait" trope. Unfalsifiable at
| the time it is written, long since forgotten when it turns
| out to be just another inaccurate contrarian hot take.
| jacooper wrote:
| Well that certainly worked for WhatsApp, when they delayed
| the new privacy policy, and then just rolled out when the
| media coverage died down.
| d0mine wrote:
| It is the exact opposite. On the one hand there is a real
| ever present interest of nearly almighty institutions to
| get the data. On the other there is a whisper about
| protecting privacy. Blink and you lose (it is like angels
| from Doctor Who).
|
| Or you one of those people who doesn't believe that e.g.,
| gmail is easily searchable by the "right" people?
| hobbitstan wrote:
| 'Research has consistently shown, though, that end-to-end
| encryption is a vital safety tool for protecting human rights and
| that the downsides of its implementation do not outweigh the
| benefits.'
|
| The 'downsides' being combating the mass rape of children.
| aaomidi wrote:
| iCloud is not e2ee. Not sure why that's relevant.
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