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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by no_time on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:06AM (#28071103)
You could go back even further if you wanted. Possibly to the first handwritten letter delivered by a third party. That's where all the potential for censorship and tampering started.

Truth is even if our tools evolve, our chains evolve faster.

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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by simonh on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:20AM (#28071164)
Case in point being the Black Chamber run by the Thurn und Taxis post in Brussels in the 16th Century.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230298125_11

Signals intelligence intercept and analysis centres have been called Black Chambers for a long time, including the first such group in the US, predecessor to the NSA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber

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