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Re:Apple’s Mistake by cassianoleal on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:28PM (#28118881)
It's unclear exactly what this means to be honest. Which is not less scary but more.

This sentence:

> Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online

seems to suggest that the hash-matching happens only on iOS and iPadOS.

The rest of the text OTOH suggests many things happen across all types of devices and OSs.

Regardless, this seems very bad.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake by YokoSix on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:11PM (#28119444)
My guess is that they're going to put it into the macOS Photos app. Those images are already scanned for people, animals and objects so it should be easy for them to implement the child protection database there.
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