> the hashes are on the device I understand and it’s not going to be that difficult to extract them.
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A Review of the Cryptography Behind the Apple PSI System, Benny Pinkas, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University:
> Do users learn the CSAM database? No user receives any CSAM photo, not even in encrypted form. Users receive a data structure of blinded fingerprints of photos in the CSAM database. Users cannot recover these fingerprints and therefore cannot use them to identify which photos are in the CSAM database.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Technical_Assessment_...
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The Apple PSI Protocol, Mihir Bellare, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego:
> users do not learn the contents of the CSAM database.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Technical_Assessment_...
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A Concrete-Security Analysis of the Apple PSI Protocol, Mihir Bellare, Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego:
> the database of CSAM photos should not be made public or become known to the user. Apple has found a way to detect and report CSAM offenders while respecting these privacy constraints.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Alternative_Security_...
There’s some irony in that.
If you don’t understand the details of this, I’ll recommend this podcast episode which sums it up and discusses the implications https://atp.fm/443
Do you have a source for this, or are you just making things up?
In the mean time they lock your account which means your entire digital life stops dead until their review process is done.
No way do I accept any of this.
Also the hashes are on the device I understand and it’s not going to be that difficult to extract them.