Comment by SilverRed
4 years ago
At Apple scale, a once in a million issue is going to ruin the lives of 2000 people. A false positive here is not a mild inconvenience. It means police raiding their house, potentially damaging it, seizing all of their technology for months while it is analyzed, and leaving these people highly stressed while they try to put their lives back together.
This isn't some web tech startup where a mistake means someones tshirt got sent to the wrong address. Peoples lives will quite literally be ruined over mistakes here.
> once in a million issue
Is it a once in a million issue? The collision rate matters. It could easily be much higher and then it wouldn’t matter that it was being used at Apple’s scale.