Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by Tsiklon on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:17AM (#28166963)

I agree with you, however they are different kinds of reprehensible, I don’t believe they are equivalent.

One stokes an intimate and personal fear or revulsion, something that any parent or anyone with empathy will feel.

The second allows for quiet enforcement of the subversion of the relationship the state has with it’s citizens.

Both are awful, but in their own incomparable way.

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by sneak on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:06AM (#28167890)

CSAM is actually pretty rare in society. Most people aren't sexually attracted to children.

iPhones running current iOS are not rare at all. Much of our society carries and uses them.

They are not equivalent in scale.

Subverting every iPhone in the world (or country) to spy for the pigs is a much worse crime than all of the CSAM in the world (or country).

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Re:Apple's child protection features spark concern within it... by feanaro on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:51AM (#28231109)

I wasn't implying they were equivalent, but that doesn't make the second one any less awful.

In fact, it is the more insidious danger of the two, since it can easily strip you from all your freedoms while not evoking as visceral a reaction as the first one.

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