Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
by majewsky on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:26AM
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Re (1): That's technically true, but missing the point when viewed holistically. Those first feature phones were mostly just used to make quick calls to arrange an appointment or discuss one or two things. They were not a platform to mediate a majority chunk of our social lifes like today's phones are.
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Re:Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
by ben_w on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:16AM
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That also seems to miss the point, as for most of the stuff you’re describing the phone is a thin client and the computation is on a server, and that would still be true even if the phones themselves ran only GPL-licenced code and came with pre-installed compilers and IDEs.