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A comment on Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow.

Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by rinron on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:39AM (#28070247)
This matches up with how I view Apples corporate thinking. "we know what's best" "the consumer is not to be trusted". Apple limits access to hardware, system settings, they block apps that don't meet moral standards, are "unsafe", or just might cause apple to not make as much money. They do not significantly care what people say they want after all they know best.

A lot of people love not having options and having these decisions made for them.

I would never want a device like that or with something that scans my device, but I think the vast majority of their customers if they even hear about it will think "I trust apple, they know what's best, it wont affect me"

Im ok with apple doing it because i think most apple users will be ok with it. I would not be ok with it if all Android devices started doing it though.

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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by jimbob45 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:23AM (#28070491)
That’s sort of the genius of Apple though, isn’t it? They make products that hold your hand tighter than any designer but their marketing department obscures that fact as much as possible with their “think different” campaigns.

It’s less “I trust Apple” and more “if I really cared, I’d have bought from another designer”.

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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by pndy on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:17AM (#28071153)
This isn't exclusive to Apple - Microsoft recently decided that starting from August Windows Defender will have the option for blocking PUAs enabled by default for those users who doesn't have other third-party security software [1]. This also I belive falls under "we know what's best" and "the customer is not to be trusted" or "is too stupid to run things by on its own".

This does looks good on paper - caring for customers and their security, peace of mind but tomorrow it might be a total vendor-lock with no ways of installing any other software than one approved by the corporate entities.

[1] - https://www.ghacks.net/2021/08/03/windows-10-blocks-potentia...

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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by kaba0 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:47AM (#28071312)
I don’t see why a circumventable default block of random executables is bad. People (even technically adept ones, who are a small minority) are very easy to fool. Depending on how easy it is to allow execution of such a program (which is a UX problem) it can indeed be what prevents a botnet on a significant number of computers.
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