Comment by blindriver
1 month ago
This sounds exactly like that CSAM "feature" they wanted to add but created a huge outrage because of how incredibly invasive it was.
It sounds like it only needs a few extra lines of code to get exactly what they wanted before, they just packaged it differently and we all fell for it like frogs getting boiled in water.
A frog that is gradually heated will actually jump out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Let's hope that part of the analogy also applies.
Oh ffs, not this one again.
The CSAM filtering was a best of class implementation. I'm pretty sure I'm one of maybe a dozen people who actually read the spec before throwing a hissy-fit about "muh privacy!"
The only actual "flaw" was that maybe a state-level actor could make it scan for bad stuff on your device.
BUT they can do it to your cloud data _today_. And if you disabled cloud uploads, the local scanning was disabled too.
> BUT they can do it to your cloud data _today_.
No, they can't if you enable ADP[1].
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756