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Someone else did make a very good point. Images sent to an iPhone user on WhatsApp and iMessage can end up in iCloud photos unintentionally. So some person can send child porn to others in a 'swatting attack' and they will get flagged as a pervert when the image ends up in iCloud. 

And we have to ask , is the the crime of possession of these images worth the largest tech company in the world throwing its privacy reputation in the trash can? Child abuse takes many forms  - however  it seems this just seems to whip up a fever in the good old religious, moral majority USA. For a wealthy country, the USA has awful levels of child poverty, malnutrition and deaths in child birth particularly amongst minorities. Why not address those issues ?

The concerns are completely valid and this has to be one of the most insane things Apple has ever proposed.

Apparently someone has decided that "child porn" is one of the most urgent issues facing society therefore extraordinary measures must be taken to identify anyone who possesses these images. What's next, imagine an image that makesfun of the president. If we get some fascist in power ( we were close), they could silently add the hash of that image to the database of hashes and suddenly they can instantly identify everyone with that image on their iPhone and send the secret police to their door?

Using the guise of child-porn as a trojan horse ( anyone who objects is tarred and feathered as being in favor of child-abuse) we are having our privacy invaded in the most evil way. 

I have at least four of the meross Wi-Fi smart plugs and two of their external weatherproof plugs and they all work perfectly reliably and have never given me any issues when used from HomeKit. Highly recommended And give me less trouble than my hue accessories and my iHome ones. 

HPC runs on Intel. Software vendors are slow to move in this field as it isn’t a simple recompile to run on Apple silicon. Apple would need to show a massive performance advantage…

There is always a suspicion in my mind that the original plaintiffs get way more than the 7500 and that somehow part of the  millions the lawyers get ends up somehow in their pockets.