mrstep

maddog_uk_69 said:

jimh2 said:

Nothing says sketchy like "hacking" a computer owned by an owner of the company the hacker works for. Are we really supposed to believe this was not a setup to generate business. Assuming it was not a setup, I still would never advertise this as being done because it looks like a setup. In fact I would be embarrassed to publish this shameless attempt at demonstrating cred.

Good lord, did you even read the story?

Did jimh2 miss the part where the hacker works for a cyber-security company that Katzenberg invested in and then Katzenberg clicked a phishing link to get his machine infected? Oh no, it looks like jimh2 read that part correctly.

It's time we had sensible AirTags control.  Background checks, waiting periods, mental health interviews, government registry, limited battery capacity, the works.  If it stops just one stalking...

Or maybe the problem is the person misusing it, but who can truly say?

TripleTrouble said:

My Orbi Router set (RBR50s) is the worst piece of kit I've ever owned (at least since the Lowes Iris smart home fiasco). Bad build, bad user experience, bad networking, bad app, bad customer service, what's there to like?

I ended up going out and buying a Deco (been fairly happy with it) - my Orbi would consistently drop the WiFi connectivity of devices.  They'd claim to be connected, but have no data pass through.  Turn off WiFi, turn it back on, and you'd get data for anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour or two.  Of course, that meant you'd never know *when* it would stop, wouldn't see texts/mail in a timely manner... And it all started after some firmware update they did - it had been pretty good up until then.  After the update, I gave it about a year to get fixed, and it never did.  Awful to use at that point.  Maybe they've fixed it, I don't trust Netgear at this point.

People seem to like the Google stuff, Deco has been been good for my house, I really wish Apple had stayed in the router game... But I'll never get near an Orbi again.

> The inclusion of the option in the list may be in response to repeated misguided claims that Apple's CSAM tools erode privacy and may enable surveillance for governments down the road, likely caused by misinformed public outcry overestimating the system's capabilities. Furthermore, Google also performs the scanning — albeit not on-device.

The claims - from essentially every privacy group - that it's likely to be abused in the future because it enables client side scanning isn't a "misguided claim", it's almost inevitable once the ability is added.  It's just a question of what it will "protect" us from next.

"Google also performs the scanning" - because what, we look to Google as a shining light of privacy protection?  "albeit not on-device."  Right, usually when some third-party software is scanning your files, it's malware or a virus, not the company selling you the phone.  It's arguable that you shouldn't have private companies scanning your files as part of storage solutions, but with the secret letters that agencies use to access content, that ship has sailed.

It's unclear why AI is cheerleading something that will 99.999% likely end up eroding privacy protections - and in the best case doesn't improve your privacy.  They could scan iCloud content like everyone else scans their respective cloud files and at least not end up being worse. (Hell, they could use the hash, # of hits, review method all server side.)

It's unreal seeing the "others do it in the cloud, Apple is just late to the party".  No, this is client side, and it's an if statement away from scanning all content, not just iCloud uploads.  As icing on their privacy-joke cake, they're only enabling this for US users initially.

The fact that the whistleblower who revealed the US government's illegal surveillance state operations is in exile in Russia - while the people who ordered and implemented it walk free - should provide a pretty solid roadmap as to how this will end up being abused.