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Re:Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Brute... by whatever1 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:32AM (#28104656)
Why does Apple even bother with encryption? They should just skip all of the warrant requirements etc and use their iCloud keys to unlock our content and store it unencrypted at rest.

Maybe they can also build an api so that governments can search easily for dissidents without the delays that the due process of law causes.

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Re:Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Brute... by laurent92 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @04:12AM (#28105043)
Funny. The way I imagine NSA’s and FBI’s secret cooperation with Google is exactly this: Provide a search API that gives access to anything.
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Re:Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Brute... by x2r on Sunday August 08, 2021 @04:29AM (#28105099)
They already have that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) But the 'security' services want access to what's on people's phones too.
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Re:Apple's New CSAM Protections May Make iCloud Photos Brute... by gorgonzolachz on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:37AM (#28104673)
Facetious as this is, I can't imagine this is anything other than Apple's endgame here.

The best of both worlds: keep advertising their privacy chops to the masses, while also allowing any and every government agency a programmatic way to hash-verify the data passing through their systems in real-time.

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