Comment by kristjansson
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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/
That’s not my interpretation of the first party descriptions of the CSAM system. Clearly it works if photos are encrypted; nothing implies they’re using that capability yet.
If that were the case, this would not merely be a PR mess but PR malpractice of an entirely other, novel kind.
The system is complicated, especially the PSI paper. But it is clear, that it is designed to run on encrypted images, there is choice to run without it.
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