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Should I leave apple ecosystem in light of CSAM?
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To quote a couple phrases I use at work very frequently:
Not my problem
Above my pay grade
A phrase for these is Head in Sand.
it wouldn't, there is no point. Apple forcing things on me will ironically free me. I'm canceling services, turning things off and reducing my iDevice usage. The "ecosystem," for me at least, is a feature and a joy only so long as I have enthusiasm for Apple products.
I don't have that anymore, at all.
You must be a fantastic worker, your employer is lucky.
Interesting follow up (not iOS) that shows how desperate LEO is to get ”back door access” to phones.
So what's the current status of Apple's on-device CSAM scanning plans? Still in limbo?
Still in limbo though they have turned on the iMessage nudie alert without parent notification in beta 2.
Apple's CSAM Catches San Francisco Doctor With Child Exploitative Images on His iCloud
Apple assures the public that CSAM still protects the privacy of all users as it only uses the hashes of images to scan them.
www.techtimes.com
Reading this it is like an iCloud share scan caught someone and the CSAM non-launched was .... ????
The article is from August. iOS 15 wasn't even live at the time. This wasn't the CSAM scan; they must have caught him by some other means.
I don't get how merely having pictures stored in your phone makes you a predator, though. He didn't actually harm any children by just looking at some photos, did he? Unless the photos were of himself accompanied by said children, of course. I suspect there's more to the story than meets the eye.
I don't get how merely having pictures stored in your phone makes you a predator, though. He didn't actually harm any children by just looking at some photos, did he? Unless the photos were of himself accompanied by said children, of course. I suspect there's more to the story than meets the eye.
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I am dead serious.
It would be illegal, say, to break into our parliament building armed with machine guns and to shoot everybody. But if that happened, and I happened to have a video of the event in my mobile phone which I watched in delight over and over again, that wouldn't make me a murderer. It may be illegal to kill politicians, but it isn't illegal to be glad when it happens.
If you send me a photo of a child, the fact that I decide to keep it, instead of deleting it immediately, doesn't make me a predator. And for that matter it doesn't make you a predator either, unless you're the one who took it, or you somehow contributed to its creation. By the time that photo reaches my phone the harm is already done. I'm all for hunting down the lowlifes the photo originates from, of course, but putting me in jail won't help the children.
It would be illegal, say, to break into our parliament building armed with machine guns and to shoot everybody. But if that happened, and I happened to have a video of the event in my mobile phone which I watched in delight over and over again, that wouldn't make me a murderer. It may be illegal to kill politicians, but it isn't illegal to be glad when it happens.
If you send me a photo of a child, the fact that I decide to keep it, instead of deleting it immediately, doesn't make me a predator. And for that matter it doesn't make you a predator either, unless you're the one who took it, or you somehow contributed to its creation. By the time that photo reaches my phone the harm is already done. I'm all for hunting down the lowlifes the photo originates from, of course, but putting me in jail won't help the children.
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Is that even correct? Further looking into suggest that the app operators he used highlighted the issue that it matched a Microsoft list. Then the law went in with subpoenas?Apple's CSAM Catches San Francisco Doctor With Child Exploitative Images on His iCloud
Apple assures the public that CSAM still protects the privacy of all users as it only uses the hashes of images to scan them.
Here in the US and most other countries (118 of 195?) the mere fact of having any CSAM picture at all is a felony.
Un less you have Government authorization.
Correct, Apple has maintained that they have checked iCloud photos for CSAM for years. This article appears to reference that older program.
This is not on-device CSAM scanning, which has not yet been deployed.
And emphasis on yet. Because it'll almost certainly happen sooner or later.
there is talk about the new internet infrastructure on the good ol USA
and they need the technologists big time in no time.
will Apple still be around then?
or are they the technologists?
this child in question face recognition law might be part of that infiltration
hmmmmm
and they need the technologists big time in no time.
will Apple still be around then?
or are they the technologists?
this child in question face recognition law might be part of that infiltration
hmmmmm
Quick shufty on the net and it indicates that he was highlighted by the app operators highlighting it against another OS makers database and referred to the Candian police who beamed it south of the border. Not Apple. The US law then went in with subpoenas and nabbed his iCloud account. As far as I see, Apple played no part in this, even from the iCloud account until it was seized. Yet to be heard in court so still ongoing?
Or have I missed something.
Wait a moment. Privacy is no longer a differentiating feature for Apple because of a “proposed feature” that was halted vs the competition just enabling auto sync to servers by default and for over a decade did the scanning in cloud without saying a PEEP to customers is now considered equal to Apple?! Huh?
The competition also didn't put up billboards that say "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone apple.com/privacy"
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You really need to review just what other cloud services actually do vs what Apple does today.
Actually do, not proposed.