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Scanning all your photos in the cloud easily extends to checking all sorts of other things as well.
It does. However people have a greater expectation of privacy on a device they own than on a cloud-based solution where they have voluntarily uploaded content.
If you do, however, set up a server, you can centralize your data and easily run all the backup jobs from it.
I have always used Mega[0]. It's real end to end encryption. I would argue it also has a superior user experience across all the others. [0] https://mega.nz/
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Apple’s system design does not easily extend to checking vague subject matter. Every step of the process is tied to hashes of specific photographs. And do you seriously think they didn’t check the legality of what they built? Really?
> specific photographs That's the catch. Nothing in the system design prevents them from adding hashes of other types of photographs to that database. > And do you seriously think they didn’t check the legality of what they built? IANAL, but the law clearly states that transmitting CSAM to any party other than NCMEC is a felony. Apple != NCMEC. More info: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On..…
And the law clearly states that that doesn’t apply if an immediate effort is made to involve law enforcement. Besides, Apple is not transmitting it to Apple, the user is.
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Apple’s system design does not easily extend to checking vague subject matter. Every step of the process is tied to hashes of specific photographs. And do you seriously think they didn’t check the legality of what they built? Really?
That is not correct. They are algorithms that detect photos that resemble specific photographs.
I have always used Mega[0]. It's real end to end encryption. I would argue it also has a superior user experience across all the others. [0] https://mega.nz/
While KimDotCom is an impressive hacker, I am not sure that I would love to be the target of the FEDs around the world as he is still in the eye of the US.
Fun story about MegaUpload.
I once lived in Argentina back in the MegaUpload days. At the time, piracy was the norm (not only in Argentina), the gov didn't care, and people where selling pirated, burned DVD on the streets. This was a downtown, a high transited area.
Then MegaUpload started to grow like fire, and I remember that starting at 4 pm, the internet would get awfully slow. As people get off their jobs to download the latest movie or episode out there. Then PopcornTime, and things got even worst. Cant find the stat, but I remember something along the line of 60% of Buenos Aires traffic being MegaUpload's at peak time (4-10pm), which caused a lot of controversy at the time.
Old days...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stin...
This was on Ars Technica really recently. I have not used it myself yet: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stin...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...