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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by justin_oaks on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:56PM (#28227034)
It's important to keep nefarious stuff on the server side because eventually someone will reverse engineer what's on the client side.

Imagine if Apple had done this on the client side without telling anyone, and later it was discovered. I think things would be a whole worse for Apple in that case.

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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by squarefoot on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:42PM (#28229764)
Devices with proprietary OSes spend more and more time phoning home, then exchanging data officially for "updates". They probably tell the truth, but should one of them decide to hide users data exfiltration or other monitoring practices behind those updates, it would be quite hard to catch them. In other words we have no way to tell that they're not already doing this.
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Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ... by websites2023 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:57PM (#28228186)
That being the case, why do it client side at all, when presumably every claim they make is verifiable?
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