Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by taurath on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:49AM (#28084352)

If my parents had the feature to be alerted about porn their kid’s device while I was a teen they would have sent me to a conversion camp, and that is not an exaggeration.

Apple thinks the appropriate time for queer kids to find themselves is after they turn 18.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by neop1x on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:51AM (#28084728)

Maybe Apple will decrease child abuse cases but increase cases of child suicides..

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by mrtranscendence on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:47AM (#28087890)

If you're just downloading and looking at porn, no problem. It only becomes an issue if you're sharing porn via Messages or storing it in iCloud. And to be fair, I don't think they're alerted to the nature of the pornography, so you might be able to avoid being outed even if you're sharing porn (or having porn shared with you).

Edit: I'm wrong in one respect: if the kid under 13 chooses to send a message with an explicit image despite being warned via notification, the image will be saved to a parental controls section. This won't happen for children >= 13.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by taurath on Saturday August 07, 2021 @03:31AM (#28096583)

Sure, but the parents can then unlock and go thru the phone and out the poor kid.

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