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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by kkarakk on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:49AM (#19112501)
"working with" the fbi usually means the fbi provides hashes of images containing illegal content like child pornography and image providers give up any accounts that contain images with those hashes(google does it this way)

they don't just give the fbi data access without a court order

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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by thecatspaw on Friday February 08, 2019 @04:28AM (#19112692)
Sure, but to be able to create the exact same hash as the FBI you need to be able to access the unencrypted content.
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Re:No Thank You, Mr. Pecker by mschuster91 on Friday February 08, 2019 @08:06AM (#19113745)
Local client creates hashes and transmits them together with the metadata and the encrypted data, Apple compares incoming hashes with FBI/NCMC/... databases. Easy as that.
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