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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by ndkwj on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:46AM (#28084692)
The fact that they've decided to move this processing from their servers to the local device means they 100% intend to scan all of your photos and not only those that you upload to iCloud in the future.
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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by trangus_1985 on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:11AM (#28084846)
I don't think they do. I also don't think they can easily decrypt icloud as you're making it out to be.

However... yeah. This is a massive breach of trust. Having any spyware agent on my device is disgusting. I can't imagine the abuse cases this sort of thing can be used for.

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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by realusername on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:21AM (#28084901)
> I also don't think they can easily decrypt icloud as you're making it out to be.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by new299 on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:21AM (#28085265)
According to some reports they’ve been doing it server side for a while:

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-...

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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by rasz on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:56AM (#28088004)
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-scraps-end-to-end-e...
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