An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
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#2I signed this, but I'm very doubtful this will ever achieve something.
But this made me wonder: is there an history of people complaining about this sort of things and actually achieving something?
I think this might have happened with MSFT's hailstorm/passport, where in the end industry opposition meant the project was abandoned, but I can't recall other instances.
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#3Because it’s based on machine learning, why can’t some of the network and weights used for the hash be shared? So we can be sure it is not possible to match anything else than children.
The sub narrow network used for detecting only CP is of course secret, but then we know it can’t be used for revealing pictures of police, activists etc
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#4How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#5I signed this, but I'm very doubtful this will ever achieve something. But this made me wonder: is there an history of people complaining about this sort of things and actually achieving something? I think this might have happened with MSFT's hailstorm/passport, where in the end industry opposition meant the project was abandoned, but I can't recall other instances.
Unlikely to fix Apple. They have sold their souls and are beyond all hope. However it will further motivate efforts to get Linux running properly on Apple hardware. When this trojan inevitably arrives in macOS hopefully someone can figure out how to isolate and remove/disable that piece of malware.
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#6Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085632
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#7I was actually looking to buy the new iPhone should they add back TouchID, but this has been quite the turnoff.
Are Pixel phones the only android phones that allow you to do secure boot with non stock images and basically long term cripple phone functionality once its unlocked?
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#8How to complain: don't buy an iphone next time you need a new phone
I am going to give them a chance to reverse this but I literally just bought an upgrade to my iCloud. I thought it would make my life easier not having to worry about storage so much. Now I am just waiting for this reversal to happen or think I will have to cancel my iCloud subscription to start.
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#9Because it’s based on machine learning, why can’t some of the network and weights used for the hash be shared? So we can be sure it is not possible to match anything else than children. The sub narrow network used for detecting only CP is of course secret, but then we know it can’t be used for revealing pictures of police, activists etc
It doesn't seem to work that way. It's a bunch of arbitrary hashes that might not show up as any content in particular except "this hash matches". In particular, there was someone claiming that images of empty rooms where abuse happened are part of the database, along with other images that appear in the same sets as CSAM.
Re: An open letter against Apple's new privacy-invasive client-side content scanning
#10I was about to buy M1 Macbook. No thanks.