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CHat sometimes works. I like _real_ live chat, not those boxes that pop up where you're most likely talking to a bot and can't get a real person.

If I'm on a company website for tech support, or have problems with an order, I've seen real live chats, where there's a person on the other side, be useful. It's better than, say, abandoning a complicated order, calling in, and seeing if the agent can find you cart, etc.

An even better idea: Right now, the biggest address is 255.255.255.255. Why not just make it go up to 999.999.999.999? Problem solved!

I'm fairly certain, based on things I've see while under NDA at other vendors with cloud offerings for media files, that other companies are running CSAM scanners, at the Government's request, on their servers. (The one's I've seen searched for known CSAM based on signatures and didn't try to use AI to guess if an image contained it.)

I think this Wired article is referring to scanning on the User's device. Apple may have wanted to do this so they could enable end-to-end encryption and still be able to comply with "secret" government requests.

I'm not sure why companies agree to do this scanning in the first place. Somehow our government applies pressure to the companies to add these scanners. And it's hard for be to believe that "CSAM" is all they're looking for.

> seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river.

That's an awfully bold statement! I'm quite happy in the Microsoft ecosystem for OneDrive, etc, and I'm not reading this and jumping to Apple. I'm not sure if most people care about these claims, and the people who are very security aware probably don't believe them.