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  • Apple 'poisoned the well' for client-side CSAM scanning, says former Facebook security chi...

    rcfarcfa
    “Apple says it will not allow governments or other entities to coerce it into changing the technology to scan for other items such as terrorism.”

    Nice intentions…
    …not worth the bits they are written with.

    I just want to see Cook explain to shareholders the crash in Apple’s stock price as he announces leaving the Chinese market for refusing to scan for pictures of the Dalai Lama, Pooh, HK Protests, etc.

    You know, just like Apple left the Chinese market when China asked that VPN apps be removed from the AppStore, or when China and Russia mandated that all iCloud servers for their country’s users be within their jurisdiction, or when the US government wanted iCloud backups to remain unencrypted.

    Apple is always quick to point out that they comply with all the laws of the countries they operate in, so they will punt and point the finger to the authoritarian regimes’ laws as they obediently comply. And US authorities will use this as an excuse to not have national security disadvantages over other countries, etc.

    In the good old days before electronic communications, law enforcement couldn’t tap into anything, and they still managed to prosecute crime, they just had to put in more actual shoe leather for investigations, while these days some guy thinks the only time he should get up from his office chair is to present evidence in court (unless that’s a video conference, too). The demands of law enforcement are simply an expression of laziness.
    emig647gatorguyelijahgspock1234darkvaderlibertyforall

  • Apple removes 'iDOS 2' from iOS App Store

    rcfarcfa
    Really annoying! The whole point of a sandboxed emulator is that it’s secure. There’s no danger for system security from running legacy software. There’s a variety of old DOS apps, that I like to run, to open old files, etc. iDOS was ideal for such tasks. It’s restrictions like these that make the “Pro” in “iPad Pro” thoroughly laughable.
    chadbagelijahgnapoleon_phoneapartxyzzy01

  • Apple expanding child safety features across iMessage, Siri, iCloud Photos

    rcfarcfa
    Such things are always passed in the guise of things that make those who object them look like monsters: child abuse, terrorism, etc.

    In reality, once the infrastructure is in place, Apple won’t be able to resist political pressures.
    China may force them to include pictures of Winnie the Pooh, because they are used to mock Xi Jinping in China, or pictures of pro democracy protests; some African regimes, where homosexuality is outlawed, might require the addition of a gay sex database, Russia may want to look for pictures or videos by Nawalny, etc. etc.

    Once this train leaves the station, it can’t be stopped. Do NOT BE FOOLED by the benign cause that is behind the initial rollout! This will be worse than the deceptively named PATRIOT ACT.

    elijahg

  • Apple reportedly plans to make iOS detect child abuse photos

    rcfarcfa
    I hear echos of Minority Report…

    Going to be fun for security researchers, journalists, whistleblowers, law enforcement officers: how will the system distinguish between holding evidence and peddling?
    Oferbaconstangkkqd1337watto_cobra

  • Apple reportedly plans to make iOS detect child abuse photos

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    crowley said:
    AppleInsider said:

    "This sort of tool can be a boon for finding child pornography in people's phones," he said. "But imagine what it could do in the hands of an authoritarian government?"
    But it's not in the hands of an authoritarian government?  It's in the hands of Apple.  If an authoritarian government wanted to do something like this I have no doubt they'd be capable of doing it, I don't see how Apple going after child abusers is going to affect that.
    Apple complies with all laws in countries it sells its products, it is not a company that pulls out of markets, when it doesn’t like requests.
    Thus in Russia iPhones will come with the Russian approved software installation options, servers for Russian and Chinese users are in their respective countries, subject to access by the local authorities, and if laws are passed, that (once they build the capabilities) messages be scanned for certain content, Apple will comply, too.
    Or do you seriously think they will drop the Chinese market over human rights concerns? 🤣

    That’s exactly why jailed systems are bad: once something like this is baked in, the user has no chance at modifying the system to prevent it.

    So, no, it’s not in the hands of Apple, at least not in any realistic sense of the word.
    Oferwatto_cobra