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Just shut the fuck up, you annoying loser. Jesus Christ.

Why are you calling your friends pretentious?

Are HN readers ever going to tire of this schtick?

iMessage actually isn’t included in iCloud backups by default. It’s the one thing toggled off in the settings of a fresh iOS install.

Something wasn’t squaring between the claims that Apple has already been scanning iCloud Photos for years, that Apple reports hundreds of instances of CSAM while Facebook reports m…

As skinkestek kindly pointed out, the point of my sarcastic comment was that now that the precedent of scanning the contents of users’ devices - as opposed to the contents of Apple…

They’re scanning users’ data on users’ devices. What do we call that if not snooping?

What are you referring to? I wasn’t aware of any SCOTUS ruling re: national ID, and after a brief search just now I still can’t find any relevant precedent.

Why should Apple let pedophiles store CSAM on iPhones just because they’re not uploading it to iCloud Photo Library? It’s morally reprehensible to not disable that flag when it’s s…

There’s little point in E2E encryption if snooping is moved outside of either end. This measure is only necessary for implementing E2E in iCloud insofar as it allows the feds to do…