Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM? • Hacker News Board

Re: Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?

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Post by nbzso » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

LinuxBender wrote: post #137

nbzso wrote: post #124

I am using Little Snitch since version 2. Practically all my connections form MacOS to the mothership are stopped by default. I turn off the filter only for updates. I avoid in general Apple software (Preview, Photos, etc.). Macs are used only for work. My personal information or browsing is done only on Linux with Open Snitch and minimalistic install. In the new information landscape blind trust can be harmful.

One small suggestion, consider using tcpdump on your router to make sure LS is really stopping everything. Apple and Microsoft wised up to this some time ago and some things hook in the network stack after the application firewalls. If you spot something please report it to the Little Snitch developers. The amount of data captured by tcpdump can be minimized by only capturing syn/fin/rst packets assuming proto 6 tcp…

Thanks.

Re: Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 8:29 AM UTC

avazhi wrote: post #31

cmckn wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve worked jobs in which I was exposed to this content regularly. It’s disturbing, sometimes extremely so. Just because someone does not abuse a child after viewing this content does not mean the content causes no harm to either individuals or our society at large. I don’t want to live in a world where CSAM is tolerated in order to keep pedophiles satiated.

First you couched your position as being about the children and harm to children; now you're talking about - as best I can tell - psychological harm to society writ large which you're asserting would occur based on your own experience. The part about CSAM being tolerated in order to keep pedos satiated seems like a non sequitur but honestly I don't really understand what you're trying to say, so... it doesn't sound l…

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Re: Is macOS Look Up Destined for CSAM?

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Post by liiip » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

supramouse wrote: post #82

avazhi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CSAM is, by definition, photography or videography of something that has already happened. Therefore, quite literally, doing absolutely nothing about CSAM itself would result in no harm to any child, as the harm has already occurred. Now you're probably going to then cry about incentivising or normalising CSAM - but that's a different argument. And if you then try to argue that the normalisation of CSAM would somehow…

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