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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 josephcsible on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:09PM (#28081685)
If Apple has the ability to decrypt my photos on their servers, why do I care whether or not they actually do so today? Either way, the government could hand them a FISA warrant for them all tomorrow.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by judge2020 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:31PM (#28081863)
If photos become E2EE, then Apple can no longer turn over said photos, while still not completely turning down their CSAM scanning obligations.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by dustyharddrive on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:46PM (#28083111)
That’s an interesting way to look at it. Funny how this news can be interpreted as both signaling Apple’s interest in E2EE iCloud Photos or weaking their overall privacy stance.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by judge2020 on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:38AM (#28086976)
My issue with my own statement is that we have yet to see plans for E2EE Photos with this in place - if apple had laid out this as their intention on apple.com/child-safety/ it would have been clear-cut.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by randyrand on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:11PM (#28090925)
If everything is E2EE, I don’t see how they can have any scanning obligations.

Google drive does not scan for child porn if the user uploads a user encrypted file. They literally can’t.

Personally, I don’t think E2EE photos is coming.

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