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A comment on Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by nomel on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:14PM (#28094756)
> by allowing the government to inject non-CP hashes

I don't think "allowing" is the concern here, because I highly doubt they get to generate the hashes themselves.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by mthoms on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:14AM (#28096196)
I think you misunderstand the Center’s role in this. They review and categorize the images. They maintain the database and provide access to different organizations for the purpose of catching CP. Why wouldn’t they also generate the hashes?
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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by zepto on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:24PM (#28102788)
Since they are the only ones legally allowed to possess the images, one can surmise that they must be the ones to create the hashes.
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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by SV_BubbleTime on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:02AM (#28095588)
Why not? How can we know this isn’t the case? What technical or practical prevention would there be?
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