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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 noduerme on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:39AM (#28096327)
Again though, what is the guarantee this is only going to be used to scan data uploaded to the cloud? If Apple has the ability to exfiltrate data from a phone at whim, they lose any deniability or leverage they still have with authoritarian regimes that want all the data on a phone. It's not just a terrible precedent, it's a dangerous piece of malware.
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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by dwaite on Saturday August 07, 2021 @05:45PM (#28102140)
They of course have the ability to exfiltrate data, they created the hardware and OS.

However since this is part of the opt-in iCloud photos sharing mechanism, it doesn’t appear they have started to exfiltrate data without consent.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by noduerme on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:06PM (#28102319)
>> They of course have the ability to exfiltrate data, they created the hardware and OS.

I don't in know why you're assuming they have a backdoor built in already. The whole point is that they don't, but they're going to add one.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by dwaite on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:36PM (#28108473)
I don’t count this as data exfiltration because it only releases data if you are doing iCloud photos sync, which is opt in. iCloud photo sync has also always been recoverable on the server by government request.

So they have always been one software update from non-opt-in data exfiltration and remain so.

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