News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM by johnsmith1840 on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:32PM (#48995484)
There are actual methods to do this though just not sure anyone does it yet.

1. 3rd party audit of a current repo hash 2. Public hosting of hash 3. Modern attested compute can check the current startup and running code hash and return to the user for their own checks. 4. User encrypts the last known hash they used or trust a 3rd party to perform the check like azure's methods.

Another way is to open source it and repeat 2/3/4

The way around that requires either a backdoor in attested hardware which would be wild if discovered because it's the same tech protecting companies and governments most sensitive info so they're all incentivised to audit that.

Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM by IshKebab on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:47PM (#48997258)
How would that work for closed source apps like iMessage and WhatsApp?
Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM by johnsmith1840 on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @06:34PM (#48999285)
"3rd party audit"
Re:Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM by slashdave on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:18PM (#48996050)
I seem to recall that Apple provided an audit