ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions

Re:ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash co... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:38PM (#28240251)

> All along these people thought algorithms and protocols (e.g. bitcoin and TCP/IP) would somehow be a powerful force that would cause governments to fall on their knees and let people evade government control. After all, it's distributed! You can't stop it!

But that's the underlying problem here. Apple isn't a standardized protocol or a distributed system. It's a monolithic chokepoint.

You can't do this with a PC. Dell and HP don't retain the ability to push software to hardware they don't own after they've already sold it and against the will of the person who does own it.

People pointed out that this would happen. Now it's happening. Qué sorpresa.

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Re:ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash co... by danudey on Thursday August 19, 2021 @06:55PM (#28240360)

Dell ships laptops with tons of Dell software, as well as tons of third-party software. Do you really think that, if they wanted to, they couldn't just update one of those pieces of software to enable remote installs?

Hell, Dell has shipped more than one bug that allowed attackers administrator-level access or worse, I wouldn't put it past them to come up with some kind of asinine feature that not only lets them push new software/drivers/whatever to the machine, but lets attackers do so as well.

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Re:ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash co... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday August 19, 2021 @07:07PM (#28240464)

> Do you really think that, if they wanted to, they couldn't just update one of those pieces of software to enable remote installs?

If they did that, people would wipe their device and not reinstall the Dell software. Many people do this already as soon as they buy the device.

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