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aguyinatx said:

It's terrifying that Apple is allowing the government to bypass legal restrictions that would have made this type of search unlawful.  I am not defending criminals or pedos but I strongly object to the government having unlimited insight into the photos on personal devices.  A list of hashes is exactly that, and that list could be expanded to anything the government would like as I strongly assume the the government is providing the hashes to Apple initially.

I must live a very boring life. There are no naked pictures of me out there and even if there were, nobody would want to see them. Other than banking details, which the government can access without my phone, getting into the hands of criminals there is nothing I would be concerned about if it made its way onto the front page of the NYTimes. The only people
this is going to affect is child pornographers and pedophiles. Good riddance. Small positives are not going to be flagged so this is not going to affect innocent and legal users. For the paranoid, the safest and easy solution is don’t backup to iCloud though, save everything to local computers, backing those up locally and then saving a copy using encrypted backblaze service or something similar. 

This answer by Marvin should be reworked into a full article. Great informed speculation there! 

patchythepirate said:

bulk001 said:

Any real fan would respect Apple’s wishes and stop reading any rumors as they are then complicit in causing harm to the company. That is if they actually have any integrity in all their screeching about Apple always being right, always seeing the worse in every other companies motives and seem to act as if the company is infallible in every way. 

Okay, that is a little over the top but is there a threat by Apple against legitimate reporting (which I think AI does a good job at) and that this site will be the next thinksecret.com?

Well, I've never gone back to 9to5mac or macrumors since they released all the details on the iPhone X just a few days before launch. That showed an unforgivable lack of integrity. Also, I'm not sure why you think that Apple protecting its practices is somehow a bad thing, or that somehow Apple rumor sites are doomed lol

I have no opinion for or against Apple’s move. But around here Apple is infallible to many of their little fanboys. So, to spell it out for you, the dilemma is this is a site that is built in sharing Apple rumors (the name is Appleinsider!) Apple is starting to stamp out these rumors. If you support the site you are going against Apple’s express wishes to stop what they view as harmful behavior. If you don’t, you miss out on finding out the new rumors. Now to give AI credit, they cover a lot more than rumors with reviews, discount codes etc. And to defend the other sites, they are rumor sites and will publish any rumors they hear. If you go there and read them then that is on you, not them. Maybe the blame is on you, not them. 

Any real fan would respect Apple’s wishes and stop reading any rumors as they are then complicit in causing harm to the company. That is if they actually have any integrity in all their screeching about Apple always being right, always seeing the worse in every other companies motives and seem to act as if the company is infallible in every way. 

jumpingcoco said:

Apple could’ve run 100 mockery ads telling people why they should get an M1 Mac instead of Intel

If you read the article it implies that the Mac Pro could be affected by this legislation as well. While it is time to start working to make things more energy efficient this bill has a massive loophole that will only aggravate people and not make any appreciable difference to energy usage. Now they will have to go online and customize the order in some trivial way -  “I’ll take it in black, not puke green thank you” - and wait a day or two for it to be delivered instead of taking it home right away.