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JaiOh81 said:

Why do you keep pushing the narrative that this stupid idea is inevitable? Apple already does this with iCloud. There is absolutely no reason to do this on device. And the lie that apple will simply refuse to change or add no csam to the hash is nonsense. This is why we don’t want this done on device. People who engage in these disgusting acts will simply use android phones with customized apps to hide behind 

Also, that linked article about it being “inevitable” is clearly marked as an editorial.

but as AppleInsider has noted, the addition of such measures is now inevitable.

An author’s opinion does not mean it’s inevitable.

Apple has probably been doing server side CSAM for a while now.  I see no reason to move it client side, as I’ve detailed before.

I’ve also detailed that the “smart” criminals probably already use something else to transit their materials.  Using these big name services is like doing your business in broad daylight.  Client side CSAM only punishes the honest and the really stupid.

And until Apple announces their plans for CSAM I’m sticking with iOS 14, regardless of any security patches or features.

The iPhone 5s fits my hand perfectly.  The iphone mini is close, but not quite.  I will not be upgrading.

sirdir said:

JP234 said:

But in the end, just back everything up, people! you'll save THOUSANDS by never needing to use DriveSavers. They'll tell you the same thing.

I don't backup anymore. I have all my relevant data in iCloud. Hopefully Apple doesn't screw up. 

I’ll chime in with my 2 cents as well.  I recently had an internet outage here, and if I needed to recover something, I would have been up a creek without a paddle if my backups were in the cloud.  Using cloud storage for back ups would not be as reliable or as fast as say connecting a USB drive to your Mac.  A full restore takes long enough over usb, think of what it would be over the internet.

if you’re referring to just storing your data in the cloud, and hoping the provider manages its own backups, that may help you if they lost or munged up the data, but what if something changed it on your end, such as malware or a malicious user who gained access to your Mac? Your original data would subsequently be lost with no way to get it back.  The cloud provider would see it as just a new set of bits to store.

This reflects my sentiments exactly…