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 concordDance on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:12AM (#28084479)

> Sure, this only impacts child molesters.

Um. No?

I would be very surprised if more than 10% of people in possession of sexual images of under 18s molested (pre-pubecent) children.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by intended on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:13AM (#28085208)

There’s a database of known child porn. The hashes of these images are compared with the content on peoples phones.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by smolder on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:53AM (#28085878)

I don't think GP missed that point, and it seems like you missed theirs. Having illegal CSAM and molesting children are two different crimes.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by intended on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:35PM (#28130928)

The OP gets away with that argument, because many people who have such images are also, hopefully, also minors.

However, this is NOT the use case being applied for here. Holding those images, which are not part of known CP, will not be an issue, brining it up is a red herring. ~The issue most people have fruitfully started discussing is the scanning of content on your own phone.

Secondly - the correlation between holding known CP and child molestation IS, sadly, high.

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