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If you’re Apple, and you’re throwing your weight around in the US bread and butter market to convince the FBI to not scan your servers for CSAM, which is more compelling: we check …

CSAM on the server means the server is tainted and likely to be searched by governments. Good plan to keep it off eliminates that excuse.

Everyone’s going to get COVID eventually. Natural immunity + 3 rounds of the vaccine are probably enough to make it acceptable level of deadly. “Zero COVID” was never possible.

> If this is the case there is zero reason to scan locally and you can just scan the uploaded image once it is on the server. You’re having a house party. Because of the pandemic, …

That this article is even necessary proves that our leadership in the west has utterly failed to convey the goal of Coronavirus suppression tactics. Either that, or the sensible me…

I already do, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s all bound up together and there are no choices I could make that mitigate the deleterious effects the industry has. You’re fre…

There is no serious threat the US Dollar as the global reserve currency. China is a currency manipulator and is teetering on the edge of collapse because of their monetary manageme…

No. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862

Off topic but your response is spot on, and a key justification for why I want out. I want out of Silicon Valley. I want out of tech, out of screens, out of all of it. I’m using CO…

Lenovo? After Superfish? Interesting choice.

EFF lost credibility on this issue when their first statement conflated the iMessage safety for kids feature with the CSAM scanning. It’s clear that they are willing to fearmonger …

One would hope, but this severely overestimates the common user’s awareness of such features or their implementation on their devices. Check out this survey from 2019, where a majo…

Yep. This has already bitten one employee of Apple: https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1428495420917837826?... It's a damn shame, and a good reason to never, ever mix work and…

To be clear, the content being scanned in messages is not a hash check against a database. It’s a plain old nudity detection algorithm similar to what Facebook has.

I’m in the same boat. Unfortunately, I don’t see myself continuing to donate to them, given the terrible job they’ve done on this topic. I trusted them to bring nuance and clarity …

That being the case, why do it client side at all, when presumably every claim they make is verifiable?

There is no consumer grade device that is secure against state actors.

NECMEC isn’t owned by the government and the database of hashes is available from Apple.

Privacy means “you pay for the device so we don’t sell your attention to advertisers.” That’s it. There’s no protection against state level actors (Pegasus, CSAM scanning, etc.). I…

BigCos, take note: you’re better off doing nefarious shit without telling anyone. Because, if you come clean, you’ll only invite an endless parade of bloggers who will misconstrue …

> PrEP has some nasty side effects. Those who take it need to get their organ function checked every few months (I think just kidneys?). Please don’t spread this FUD. The side effe…

Absolutely. One of the best things about the US is that we have a culture which is adept at integrating immigrants. The US will stave off demographic collapse because of this.

Also the blue light thing is bullshit anyway.

> But with Apple's CSAM proposal is NOT possible to have an iPhone that Apple isn't continuously scanning This is not accurate. Scanning doesn’t happen without iCloud photos enable…

>Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure The US (along with France) can easily supply all the food they need to its citizens. Along with the alliances …