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  • Open letter asks Apple not to implement Child Safety measures

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    DAalseth said:
    No matter how well intentioned, this effort will be used to damage Apple's reputation, severely. It should be abandoned immediately. 
    Remember how Apple was excoriated by some last year for having a "monopoly" on covid reporting Apps. and that was a free thing they did with Google and kept no data. Apple just stuck a big red Kick Me sign on their back. 
    Apple will insist there is no back door into the system, but what they don’t realise is that this the back door. This is the back door that the governments have been asking for. All they need to do is add hashes from other databases (searching for pictures of dissidents, words from subversive poetry), tweak the threshold (you have to have four hits instead of eight) and you have an authoritarian government’s wet dream. It is the ultimate surveillance tool. 

    More of a back passage than a back door, centrally controlled by Apple and law enforcement, allowing every phone to spy on its user. 

    It’s odd but I’m typing this message on my iPad, and I have this notion that I no longer trust it, nor my iPhone, nor my Macs. I’m wary of them of them now. Even if Apple did reverse course (which they won’t), I don’t think that trust is coming back. 

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  • Internal Apple memo addresses public concern over new child protection features

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    M68000 said:
    Does anybody think that an internal memo being posted here and maybe other places in the internet is normal or appropriate?  Especially knowing how secretive Apple is?  I don’t think most companies,  Apple or otherwise want their internal communications out in the wild ?!
    It happens quite a lot actually. 

    Especially when they want it leaked. 
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  • Internal Apple memo addresses public concern over new child protection features

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    leehericks said:

    To explain this quickly, this “scanning applies only (for now) to photos before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. If you don’t use iCloud Photos, then this will never happen (for now).

    Your device scans your photos and calculates a photo “fingerprint” ON YOUR DEVICE. It downloads fingerprints of bad materials and checks ON YOUR DEVICE. 

    If by some chance you had a match, it would put a kind of safety token with the media while uploading it to iCloud Photos. If you reach some number of safety tokens someone will be tasked with checking up on your media (presumably in a very secure way which logs everything they do during the check).

    The big question is who creates/validates the media fingerprints that get compared. Example “what if” concerns include a government like China giving Apple fingerprints for anti-government images.
    Well that’s just it. You’re assuming that your media will be checked in a very secure way, but you don’t know who is doing the checking and what happens to the image even if it’s a false alarm. 

    But the lack of transparency is the biggest concern. In the future, Apple will be given other databases to match against, and new laws will be drafted to
    prevent Apple from telling citizens of the country that they’re now searching for pictures if dissidents on their phones. 

    So instead of telling us how it works, because we do get it, perhaps someone could tell us what safeguards are built in to protect protestors in foreign countries in the future?

    Anyone?

    Thought not. 
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  • Apple expanding child safety features across iMessage, Siri, iCloud Photos

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    This is tremendously dangerous. Pattern matching can create false hits triggering ... what exactly? Transferring your data to a third party for their inspection without your permission? Keeping their private data private is exactly, precisely the reason users trust and buy Apple products. If Apple starts backing out of privacy guarantees, then what?
    Let me say clearly: I have zero faith that Apple has the technical skill to implement a feature like this. Apple screws up really simple things routinely. This is a really hard computer science problem. Apple is going to screw it up. Guaranteed. When they do screw it up, they will certainly have people looking at your private photos and quite likely get innocent people in trouble with law enforcement. The way the USA treats kids who share pictures of themselves with other kids as life long criminals is a good reason to stop and think carefully about a plan like this.
    Given that Google and Facebook have been doing this for about a decade, and both companies are at least as incompetent as you claim Apple is, plus there's no rash of false positives amongst those larger user base, I believe your fears are unfounded.

    Wait and see. If there are colossal fuck-ups, they'll be found out.
    Yeah, but here’s the thing: before, when Apple made a colossal fuck up, such as letting random text strings crash the iPhone, or bugs in the login code, they’re mildly annoying. 

    A colossal fuck-up now means that someone’s life is ruined. 

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  • Apple holds out in adopting next-generation RCS texting standard

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    auxio said:
    Just had a quick read through the history and current status of RCS on the Wikipedia page.  Sounds like a real mess of carriers trying to market it as their own (joyn, message+, etc) and different levels of support.  Not surprising Apple wants to steer clear of it for now.

    EDIT: Not to mention there are security issues
    This thing is a dog’s regurgitated breakfast. 

    The GSMA claimed that it already knew of the issues SRLabs highlighted, and that "countermeasures and mitigation actions are available" for carriers to fix their RCS flaws. Nohl countered that those fixes haven't been implemented yet for any of the issues SRLabs presented on at Black Hat.
    So rather than fix the flaws, they’re going to leave it to the implementers to come up with fixes that’ll add even more flaws?

    For the good of humanity, Apple should release Messages for Android. 

    But of course, they’d end up in court if they did. 

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