Comment by 3pt14159
4 years ago
I'm the person you're responding to, and I think so? My contract was on data that wasn't surveilled, it was willingly supplied in bad faith. Fake names, etc. And there was cause / outside evidence to look into it. I can't really go into more details than that, but it wasn't for an intelligence agency. It was for another party that wanted to hand something over to the police after they found out what was happening.
I see. I was responding to you, yes. And in this case I was more curious about your opinion - based on your previous knowledge - on the viability of Apple’s technology here, rather than the specific details of your work.
In my (uninformed) opinion - this looks like more of a bad faith move on Apples part that will maybe catch some bad actors but will be a net harmful result for apple’s users and society, as expressed in the Twitter thread.
Others who responded here though also seem to think it’ll be a viable technique.