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A comment on Apple’s Mistake. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Mistake by shuckles on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:54PM (#28120001)
They could do a lot of things. They’ve told us what they do. It’s not this. The FAQ released yesterday specifically says that users cannot be targeted.
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Re:Apple’s Mistake by pavel_lishin on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:27PM (#28120388)
They've told us what they do today.
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Re:Apple’s Mistake by YokoSix on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:17PM (#28120274)
> The same set of hashes is stored in the operating system of every iPhone and iPad user, so targeted attacks against only specific individuals are not possible under our design.

The problem with this sentence is that Apple assumes that they can't target specific individuals because every iPhone and iPad user has the exact same database in their iOS device.

But what if they have a hash in the database where they know that only one person has this exact image on their device? This way you could single out one individual with the same database.

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