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Google Photos and Gmail openly and heavily scan server-side, and I'm sure a lot of us use them, how do we reconcile that?
What I don't want is Google performing a scan of the internal memory of my Android device!
Server side they can do whatever they want, and I choose what data they can access, but on my device not.
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It's good that you're principled enough to do that but you guys will be rounding errors in Apple's revenue. Most people don't even know about this and those that do, most wont care. Even of those who do know and do care, most aren't motivated enough to change their habits beyond writing a few angry words on a forum Apple are never going to read anyway. Those that do change their buying habits, yourselves, are by far…
I think the problem with your response is that you aren't proposing anything better. It just sounds like you're saying "give in, it doesn't make a difference anyway". That capitulating, "crabs in a barrel" attitude is why things are the way they are. The majority just sits around waiting for something to happen and for some miracle to happen; for a leader to show up, galvanize the masses to change their ways and save…
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> "Can’t the police do good old fashioned police work to catch people doing these things?" I'm a detective that works exclusively on online child sexual offences. The short answer to this is "no", although the question doesn't make much sense to me. Policing has always been near the forefront of technology. Perhaps you could expand more on what "good old fashioned police work" means, in this context?
Not the OP, but by good old fashioned police work, I assume non-dragnet methods, where everybody's device isn't scanned in an automated way. So instead of sifting through a massive collection of automatically collected data, taken from a vast majority of innocent people, you'd deal with explicit reports of CSAE. You'd then be able to get a warrant to obtain ISP (and other) records, cross-reference and proceed from th…
By the time it gets to the police, there will be an identified crime.
This has been the case for many years. I don't have the numbers to hand but I believe NCMEC receives around the order of 100 million referrals a year.
EDIT: it's 20 million according to https://www.missingkids.org/ourwork/ncmecdata
https://www.missingkids.org/footer/media/keyfacts - around 99% are from tech company referrals, 1% from members of the public
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RISC-V is "nice to have". I do not know of anybody who sells RISC-V computers or boards at a reasonable price.
Maybe it does not seem a reasonable price to you, but for people who don't know, the HiFive Unmatched [1] sells for 679$ [2]. This is the most powerful RISC-V platform you can buy today. It comes as a Mini-ITX board including 16Gb of DDR4 ram, 1Gbps ethernet, usb 3.2, PCI Express and NVMe. Of course it is less powerful than an x64 machine at the same price point, but it should work reasonably well when paired with an…
And if it is flexible, what about false positives? What if I have a pictured of my naked son on my device and I get flagged? Will the picture of my son get uploaded to the cloud "for further analysis" even though I don’t have iCloud enabled and never signed up for this?
Edit: A sibling post has this link, which answers some of these questions: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
Honestly I'm glad to see a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously, especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good. It can be hard to stand on the side that doesn't immediately appear to be correct. We have already lost so many freedoms for 'national security' and other such blanket terminology. Just be warned, there will be those that unfairly try to cast this as h…
> 1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values. As much as I dislike this invasion of privacy, I still trust Apple's products, ecosystem & stewardship over the alternatives (for use by whole family). Although this is the first time in recent memory where not having a viable alternative to consider is irksome as I don't see where the negative push back will come from to p…
Honestly I'm glad to see a non-insignificant amount of people in tech take this seriously, especially when the goal Apple announces appears to be for the greater good. It can be hard to stand on the side that doesn't immediately appear to be correct. We have already lost so many freedoms for 'national security' and other such blanket terminology. Just be warned, there will be those that unfairly try to cast this as h…
> 1. Vote with your feet - Put your money in the pockets of the people aligned to your values. As much as I dislike this invasion of privacy, I still trust Apple's products, ecosystem & stewardship over the alternatives (for use by whole family). Although this is the first time in recent memory where not having a viable alternative to consider is irksome as I don't see where the negative push back will come from to p…
Even if we have true E2EE, a bad authoritarian regime in the future can simply make it illegal. It's more imperative than ever to prevent such a regime arising in the first place..
How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
Boycotting products to change a company's mind won't work because: - not enough people even know about this issue, understand the consequences or remember to act on it the next time a new phone is due - not enough alternatives on the market, and we're probably already boycotting them for other reasons - even with lower sales a company might not see the cause-and-effect There is a general trend in the industry to take…
In this case not buying the product is to avoid a viperous feature and protect house of from being spied on. Any boycott effects are tertiary.