Comment by kristjansson
4 years ago
They can’t decrypt the safety vouchers, which contain low resolution versions of your image until the conditions are met … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there.
Unless of course this is a precursor to an E2E encrypted iCloud wherein Apple does not have the ability to decrypt your images server side. I don’t see how this design makes sense unless that’s the next step
> … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there
They have no access. It is end-to-end encrypted with new system. That is the whole point of on-device scanning. It is not next step, it is already there.
It works if the photos are encrypted such that Apple can’t access them. Hence the wonky design.
They haven’t announced that photos will be E2E encrypted.
They did… just read the specs. There are many pdf:s on the bottom. They failed the PR truly.
https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
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