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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 jliptzin on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:57PM (#28081609)
“easy enough to clear up”

I prefer not having my door busted in at 6 am and my dog shot in the head because of a hash collision

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by joering2 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:47PM (#28081972)
"We are so sorry that we raided your house and blew the whole in your 2 years old baby, but the hash from one of the pictures from your 38,000 photos library, matched our CP entry. Upon further inspection, an honest mistake of an operator was discovered, where our operator instead of uploading real CP, mistakenly uploaded the picture of a clear blue sky".

https://www.aclu.org/gallery/swat-team-blew-hole-2-year-old-...

PS. On a personal note, Apple is done for me. Stick a fork in it. I was ready to upgrade after September especially since I heard touch-ID is coming back and I love my iPhone 8. But sure as hell this sad news means i8 is my last Apple device.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by jeromegv on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:11AM (#28098712)
It does not trigger for a single match. You would need more than 1 hash collision
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