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On-device Apple Intelligence training seems to be based on controversial technology
The CSAM detection system preserved user privacy, data encryption, and moreI suppose this isn’t technically wrong. The data will be encrypted, but when a threshold was met, it would allow the data to be decrypted and reviewed and potentially then sent to authorities. I had post several comments on this topic.
Apples CSAM detection is not end to end encrypted, which requires asymmetric keys to ensure that the Sender, and then the Receiver are the only ones privy to the contents. Introduce any other mechanism to enable review by a Man In The Middle, is essentially a backdoor into the algorithm.
but as some may say, the scanning was on device, what’s the issue with that? On device scanning is a very useful tool; it makes finding things easier on your device. What I do have issue with is the reporting part. It’s a form surveillance. Of what’s on your device. Something that should be private.
Yes, it only scanned when a photo was sent via iCloud and reported when a threshold was met, but that’s written in software, and software can change. So when that reporting gets triggered can change. Let’s say the government did like the results, and required Apple to be more strict to help find more positive matches?
The only correct way to think of iCloud with CSAM on device scanning was to view your photos as being in a semi public (eg public) space.
On device should be private, communication through Apple should be considered semi public (the data would still be encrypted in transit to Apple, but Apple would technically have full access), unless otherwise specified by Apple as being end to end encrypted and verified by a third party (true E2E, not wish it were E2E). -
If you have an iPhone with AT&T, there's a good chance your info has been stolen
A company I used to work for stores the ssn in the free and clear in their database. I also proved to them they had several SQL injection attack vectors. Did they want to fix these things? Nope. Probably a combination of things: they didn’t care, moving too fast for their own good, fixing it wasn’t as sexy as a new feature, too cheap to pay someone to fix it, or all of the above. All of this and definitely more probably still they’re waiting to be exploited to this day.
This is why we can’t have nice, aka things that work to protect us.
Needless to say, but I no longer work there. -
If you're using a Magic Keyboard, you've opened up an attack vector
chasm said:Yes, Bluetooth is flawed and should be fixed.BUT
It’s worth pointing out that this alleged “attack” can only work if the attacker is within 30 feet of you — so at home this is probably a complete non-issue, and even in public you’d probably only be a real risk if you were attended a black-hat hacker convention, or a Starbucks in Silicon Valley.
I concur with AppleZulu about the risk factor on this. Good to be aware of the vulnerability, very VERY low odds of it being a practical thread in the real world. -
Tim Cook confirms that Apple has been working on generative AI for years
GerfnitAuthor said:My primary problem with Siri is it doesn't remember context. So if I ask about where someone lives or the address of a company and it gives me the answer, I can't request, "Take me there" because it doesn't know what "there" means. I'm afraid I've gotten spoiled by GPTchat engines with which I can make backward references.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agzItTz35QQ
I remembered Siri being a lot better then than now, but still prefer it over others, or not having one at all. -
Samsung leaks that Apple is still working on an all-screen foldable MacBook Pro
9secondkox2 said:exceptionhandler said:radarthekat said:geekmee said:And what problem does the foldable screen solve again?Besides. If Apple couldn’t even get the butterfly keyboard right…
kidding! Just kidding.Sheesh. Calm down people.
I had not considered repair costs of a keyboard with screens on each key. I bet that would be way more than the price to repair the butterfly keyboard.