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> The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1984 by the United States Congress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_%2...
Scanning “private” content
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I noticed google doing this too while trying to look up case law related to the discussion of apple's spyware. Related google searches popped up a big intimidating notice: " WARNING Child sexual abuse imagery is illegal". The obvious implication is that your searches are being reported to some unaccountable authority. I have no doubt that this creates a chilling effect against public discussion about these practices.
Lol. I've gotten these many times. It turns out that an acronym related to my work is one typo away from a listed child porn term/site. If google is reporting these then I am already on thier list.
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#33I don't know why people are so shocked about this. Apple has always been the shopping mall of personal computing with brand prestige coming ahead of all other considerations.
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#34Maybe get the hash database and create a trove of clean documents that force a hash collision and overload the system with false positives. Maybe also add something about the Fourth Amendment in the documents for good measure.
> get the hash database Apple designed the system so that their hashes are never known to client devices. Their server is fundamentally involved in checking your hashes against their list.
The article said they get the hashes from some government entity. Perhaps it is available from there.
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#35Maybe get the hash database and create a trove of clean documents that force a hash collision and overload the system with false positives. Maybe also add something about the Fourth Amendment in the documents for good measure.
You are assuming people will not be marked for life for their false positives
That's the point!
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> get the hash database Apple designed the system so that their hashes are never known to client devices. Their server is fundamentally involved in checking your hashes against their list.
The article said they get the hashes from some government entity. Perhaps it is available from there.
You mean the NCMEC? They have the hashes, yes, but they won't just give them out.
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#37The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine. This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this country is due to technology. As someone genuinel…
Which country?
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#39The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine. This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this country is due to technology. As someone genuinel…
How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have alrea…
The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News.
Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.
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#40Librem 5 and pinephone are the future
What about Fairphone? EU only (or isn't it?) so I guess it's not a choice for that market where Apple's scanning has been introduced already as of today, but still. Though I've bought an iphone to get away from Google's all-seeing-eyes and won't crawl back to Google's ecosystem now, so I'd like to know more about Fairphone's O/S options. Is their Android de-Googled? AIU they're at least allowing installing alternative OSs without loosing warranty.