Comment by nicce

4 years ago

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.