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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by artimaeis on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:49PM (#28080415)
It's not the device that's less secure or private in this context, it's the services. There's no reason you couldn't just continue using your NAS for photo backup and Signal for encrypted-communications completely unaffected by this.

Apple seems to not have interest in users devices, which makes sense -- they're not liable for them. They _do_ seem interested in protecting the data that they house, which makes sense, because they're liable for it and have a responsibility to remove/report CSAM that they're hosting.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by adriancr on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:11PM (#28081277)
So they should do that scanning server side at their boundary instead of pushing software to run on phones with potential to extend scope later if no push back.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by gowld on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:22PM (#28081783)
They don't want to do it serve side because they don't want to see your unencrypted data!
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by dustyharddrive on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:44PM (#28083096)
Apple already holds the key to iCloud Photos content, and regularly responds to search warrants.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by adriancr on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:30PM (#28081858)
Well good thing they're looking at it anyway client side...
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by trangus_1985 on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:55AM (#28084762)
That's not the issue. The issue is that they have shipped spyware to my device. That's a massive breach of trust.

I suspect that this time next year, I'll still be on ios, despite my posturing. I'm certainly going to address icloud in the next few weeks - specifically, disusing it. However, I would be surprised if I'm still on ios a year or two after that.

What Apple has done here isn't horrible in the absolute sense. Instead, it's a massive betrayal of trust with minimal immediate intrusiveness; and yet, a giant klaxon that their platform dominance in terms of privacy is coming to an end

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