ArchStanton

M68000 said:

Why are people so up in arms about this?  If you have nothing to hide 

Is this post for real? An actual serious point? Wow...

Fyi to the rest of the world. Privacy is one of the fundamental tenants of any level of freedom. When the powerful get to know everything you do/think/say, they will always (and I do mean always) make sure you abide by what they dictate. The very fact that the powerful can't see and know means their power, at least to some degree, is in check. 

One of the most pernicious arguments the powerful use is "As long as you have nothing to hide" or "as long as you have done nothing wrong". Everyone has something to hide, everyone has done something "wrong"(though it may not be illegally wrong), everyone has some level of thoughts and words that go against what others believe is acceptable. And everyone has done something actually illegal (there are many thousands of laws and regulations in the books. it would be impossible to live a life without crossing sentences if the massive volumes knows as law and regulation). 
The powerful use a very interesting tactic of equivocation. They try to lump ordinary people in with grossly illegal behaviors like kiddie porn peddlers -- i.e. well those despicable people have something to hide. Now why do you have something to hide. 
See how that works?

Current Scroll Down of AI headlines Has All Of The Following:
-Apple App Scam
-Apple Sexism
-Apple Sued 
-Apple Wallet Dropped
-Pegasus!
-Apple HomePod Has No Market
-Apple Phones Beat by Xiaomi
-Apple Turns To (oh Bad!)Chinese Manufacturer To make IPhones

Understandable as guess which stories get the clicks and comments? (hint: see above for the likely answer)

Rayz2016 said:

ArchStanton said:

Rayz2016 said:

Hah! I said:

The more I read about this, the more ridiculous it sounds. 
Apple spends the past three years banging on about privacy, then starts scanning your photo library?
I don’t buy it, and no one would buy another iPhone if they thought their lives could be ruined by buggy software. 
The only way I see this being acceptable is if this so-called “client-side tool” would allow parents to ensure their children weren’t sending naked pics of themselves to Republican politicians posing as high-school kids. 

Okay, so this is about the kids, fair enough, but I think what we’re seeing here is the very thin edge of very wide edge. 

Thing edge to a very wide edge? How so?

Yeah, sorry, I meant “very wide wedge”. 

But what is the very wide wedge? What do you suspect this change by Apple potentially leads to?

Rayz2016 said:

Hah! I said:

The more I read about this, the more ridiculous it sounds. 
Apple spends the past three years banging on about privacy, then starts scanning your photo library?
I don’t buy it, and no one would buy another iPhone if they thought their lives could be ruined by buggy software. 
The only way I see this being acceptable is if this so-called “client-side tool” would allow parents to ensure their children weren’t sending naked pics of themselves to Republican politicians posing as high-school kids. 

Okay, so this is about the kids, fair enough, but I think what we’re seeing here is the very thin edge of very wide edge. 

Thing edge to a very wide edge? How so?

applesauce007 said:

Amazing!
An iPhone is recovered in working conditions after a year under water and all we want to talk about are comdoms in a safe from a brothel?
Apple insider should switch to being a gossip site.  LOL

It's called thread hijack. Standard tactic, move the germane or positive point away to something inane or negative. First several posts: a few drops of water kill an iPhone (that's a whopper) then condoms and brothels. 
Great read on a website devoted to uncovering these tactics. It's an eye opener.