dshiwry799

5 lat temudiscuss

Nobody with the power to make or enforce laws over the CIA have any interest in doing anything about this. The CIA is on their side, and they like it that way, both because the CIA is a useful tool to use against their enemies and victims, and because the CIA is a dangerous enemy with a lot of experience in removing people from power.

dshiwry799

5 lat temudiscuss

Everyone understands that Apple can do anything with unencrypted content, but now Apple can also identify encrypted content because they make the phone hash it before it's encrypted. Apple is essentially lying when they say this can only be used to identify child abuse material because it can clearly be used to identify whatever Apple tells it to identify. The system doesn't care if it's used to target whistleblowers or child abusers. Apple doesn't even need to know what content they are made to target. The government could just give them a hash and demand to know who has a file corresponding to it, with zero risk that an Apple employee will leak anything the government want to suppress.

There is no reason Apple can't give you E2E encryption without any backdoors or spying features. They should act on abuse when it's reported to them by someone who can give them the key, but otherwise not concern themselves with the content that's stored.

dshiwry799

5 lat temudiscuss

> This system already exists on iCloud. It's been in use for 2 years.

Source? That is not true as far as I'm aware.

> Can you point to a single instance where it was used for ulterior purposes?

What do you expect them to do with they receive a national security letter? Shut down? Go to prison for decades? Of course not. They will comply, as they have always done when the technical means to do so have been available. Why do you think we would even be told about it in situations when it can be kept secret?

dshiwry799

5 lat temudiscuss

You must live in an entirely different world if you think this will only be used to detect child porn.

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