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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by toxik on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:30AM (#28071216)
If the details of the "hashing" scheme used is publicized, I imagine it will be near trivial. It's a long-standing problem in computer vision, to find a digital description of an image such that two similar images compare equal or at least similar.

State-of-the-art for this field is deep learning, and a /huge/ problem with the DL approach is that you can generate adversarial examples. So for example, a picture of a teacup that is identified by /most/ networks as a dog. It's particularly damning, because it seems like you don't have to do this for particular deep networks, they get tricked the same way, so to speak.

Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by saagarjha on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:14AM (#28074013)
Since this algorithm presumably runs on-device, I am sure it won’t be long before someone has reverse engineered it…
Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow by zepto on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:16AM (#28074916)
Indeed, at which point we’ll know if Apple has implemented an obviously broken solution which opens us up to egregious government surveillance, or whether that is all just speculation without a factual basis.