Comment by shuckles
4 years ago
How do you think Apple will increase the scope of what’s scanned without every person with Ghidra skills not noticing?
4 years ago
How do you think Apple will increase the scope of what’s scanned without every person with Ghidra skills not noticing?
If the exchange with Apple is encrypted / interleaved with other traffic to icloud, how would you know that there isn't new classes of scanning being done?
I'll be very surprised if similar tech is not lobbied for as a backstop to catch DRM-free media files played on devices we "own".
And, it seems far more probable than not that police will demand this capability be used to help address more crimes. The problem here is that crimes can mean speaking out against an oppressive regime. Being targeted for having the wrong political views (think McCarthyism in the United States or the US backed murder of a million people in Indonesia for affiliating with the "wrong" political party). Etc. History is awash with political abuse of "out groups" perpetrated by tin pot dictators all the way to presidents and PMs of major world powers.
And, it sets the precedent that e2e encryption is not an excuse for a provider to not provide private customer data to the authorities-- a back-door can be installed, "Just do what Apple did."