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A comment on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life. Parent comment

Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by philistine on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:13PM (#28080694)
Going on with your life in this situation means police officers have been given copies of the photos that triggered the checkpoint. Do you want that?
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by Klonoar on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:15PM (#28081721)
Any image that would trigger _for this hashing aspect_ would already trigger _if you uploaded it to iCloud where they currently scan it already_. Literally nothing changes for my life, and it opens up a pathway to encrypting iCloud contents.
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