Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i...
by tshaddox on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:34PM
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> Both of these arguments are absolutely, unambiguously, correct.
I don't really buy any "slippery slope" arguments for this stuff. Apple already can push any conceivable software it wants to all of its phones, so the slope is already as slippery as it can possibly be.
It just doesn't make sense to say "Apple shouldn't implement this minimal version of photo-scanning now even though I don't think it's bad, because that's a slippery slope for them to implement some future version of scanning that I do think is bad." They already have the capability to push any software to their phones at any time! They could just skip directly to the version you think is bad!
Re:Apple Clarifies Why It Abandoned Plan to Detect CSAM in i...
by mrits on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:40PM
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Your comment confused me. Isn't Apple still scanning iPhones for CSAM just not the iCloud? I don't see any additional threat vectors by doing it locally.
I don't really buy any "slippery slope" arguments for this stuff. Apple already can push any conceivable software it wants to all of its phones, so the slope is already as slippery as it can possibly be.
It just doesn't make sense to say "Apple shouldn't implement this minimal version of photo-scanning now even though I don't think it's bad, because that's a slippery slope for them to implement some future version of scanning that I do think is bad." They already have the capability to push any software to their phones at any time! They could just skip directly to the version you think is bad!