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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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