@philistine is right that apple solution can only worth for short time being. Parents want easy automatic solution with "out of sight out of mind", but the only solution that will work long-term is talking with kid and educating them instead of out-sourcing parenting to tech company.

It's easily to design solution that will work around and allow sending either criminals or kids nude pictures under the radar, e.g.

1) Someone will eventually write web app that will use webrtc or similar for snapping nude picture (so that no picture is stored on device) 2) encrypting those photos on the server 3) sending the link to this nude image that will be rendered in html canvas (again no image will be stored on device) 4) link to web app that will rendered image will be behind captcha so that automated bots cannot scan it

Now do we want to go into the rabbit hole to 'protect the kids' and make Apple buildin camera drivers that will filter all video stream for nudity?

> the only solution that will work long-term is talking with kid and educating them instead of out-sourcing parenting to tech company.

Sometimes otherwise good, smart kids, with good parents, can be caught up by predation. It isn't always as simple as making sure the kid is educated; they'll still be young, they'll still be immature (< 13!), and it will sometimes be possible to manipulate them. I'm not saying that what Apple is doing is a good answer, it probably isn't, but it's an answer to a genuine felt need.