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  • After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware

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    ikir said:
    xyzzy-xxx said:
    I would bet that intelligence services of nearly all developed countries used Pegasus.
    For this reason it is important that there is a strong opposition from within the government.
    One more reason for Apple not to add technologies that enable surveillance (and may be hacked) into iOS.
    I hope that CSAM scanning on the device is now dead.
    have you see how really CSAM works? It is quite impossibile for any government to hack it by definition. And the reason the hash match (which is not a photo scan) happens on device.
    Pegasus enabled governments to put any code on devices just by sending an sms.
    So they could add any images or hashes on your device or manipulate the algorithm to detect other images and not to report to Apple but an intelligence agency.
    Thinking it's impossible to hack by definition is naive.
    It would be much more secure for the user if this scan would only happen in the cloud.
    davbaconstang

  • After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware

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    I would bet that intelligence services of nearly all developed countries used Pegasus.
    For this reason it is important that there is a strong opposition from within the government.
    One more reason for Apple not to add technologies that enable surveillance (and may be hacked) into iOS.
    I hope that CSAM scanning on the device is now dead.
    baconstangjahbladerinosaurdarkvader

  • Apple backs down on CSAM features, postpones launch

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    MplsP said:
    How many of the people screaming about CSAM have Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and google apps on their devices and an Amazon or google smart speaker in their home?
    I won't use a smart speaker, but regarding Facebook & co. you are comparing apples to oranges – just don't give these apps access to your photos etc. and think about what you are uploading and you will be fine.
    Beatswilliamlondon

  • Bill Maher declares Apple CSAM tools a 'blatant constitutional breach'

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    mcdave said:
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    tedz98 said:
    The general public has no understanding of what a file hash is. 

    That really is the entire point which many who are defending Apple's move are ignoring. Nothing else matters, and certainly not the technical way in which CSAM scanning works.  That's precisely why I've said in other threads that Apple is now obligated to at the very least DELAY the release until they can do PR damage control and at least try to win more public support.  They cannot do that between now and the release of iOS 15, so the feature must be pulled from iOS 15 and delay the release until at least iOS 16.  And if they never get public support and the matter seems only to get worse and worse, then the idea may need to be permanently shelved.

    This is Tim Cook's call now.  It's no doubt a hard call for him because he's played social justice warrior at times in the past, and this no doubt would seem like a step back for him.  But it's a call he has to make and make soon.
    How do you feel about Google & Facebook’s server-side CSAM scanning? And all the other scanning they do? Apple’s is the lightest of all.
    Totally wrong, server side scanning is much more acceptable because 
    1. you decide what information you put on the server (on my iPhone is currently a lot of information I never would put in the cloud)
    2. the device scan could be altered or hacked
    3. you could get send images to the device that are automatically synced to iCloud
    Doing this on the device is just bad and probably only done because it would require to much processing time to calculate hashes for all the uploaded images on the servers.
    Apple needs to delay this "feature" and put it inti iCloud.
    macplusplusbaconstangmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Outdated Apple CSAM detection algorithm harvested from iOS 14.3 [u]

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    Mass flooding the system with recognized hashes produced from manipulated images of Apple employees would be very funny 😆
    elijahgdarkvader