Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by blindriver on Saturday December 28, 2024 @07:55PM (#42536375)

This sounds exactly like that CSAM "feature" they wanted to add but created a huge outrage because of how incredibly invasive it was.

It sounds like it only needs a few extra lines of code to get exactly what they wanted before, they just packaged it differently and we all fell for it like frogs getting boiled in water.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by nntwozz on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:00PM (#42536414)

A frog that is gradually heated will actually jump out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by userbinator on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:26PM (#42537227)

Let's hope that part of the analogy also applies.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by theshrike79 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:52AM (#42538633)

Oh ffs, not this one again.

The CSAM filtering was a best of class implementation. I'm pretty sure I'm one of maybe a dozen people who actually read the spec before throwing a hissy-fit about "muh privacy!"

The only actual "flaw" was that maybe a state-level actor could make it scan for bad stuff on your device.

BUT they can do it to your cloud data _today_. And if you disabled cloud uploads, the local scanning was disabled too.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by 4ad on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:43AM (#42539890)

> BUT they can do it to your cloud data _today_.

No, they can't if you enable ADP[1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756

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