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  • Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years

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    I want a new puppy.
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  • Edward Snowden calls Apple CSAM plans 'disaster-in-the-making'

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    iOS 15 Mail has a feature to obscure your IP address when loading remote images… and Apple offers to load them automatically with the obscured IP. How many people will have no idea what this is really about and choose to load images automatically? While the IP is obscured, the mere act of loading images confirms your email address is valid, that the messages are read, and indicates when they are read. So much for privacy.
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  • Apple promises macOS scanner fix in a future update

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    mr lizard said:
    Let me get this straight. Apple introduced a bug that broke flat bed scanners even though this technology has been well understood for decades. At the same time Apple is planning to scan everyone's private photos and turn over the information to governments without a warrant using extremely sophisticated image recognition software and we should just trust them to get it right and never have a bug that exposes any private information or worse gets someone arrested even though they were innocent? This level of hubris is off the scale. Time for new management at Apple.
    Someone doesn’t understand how hash matching works. 
    Someone doesn't understand how easily bugs can arise and how disastrous their presence can be.
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  • Mini LED 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro production begins

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    The first Apple laptops that will only run spyware.
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  • What you need to know: Apple's iCloud Photos and Messages child safety initiatives

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    cpsro said:
    elijahg said:
    Remember that 1 in 1 trillion isn't 1 false positive per 1 trillion iCloud accounts - it's 1 per 1 trillion photos. I have 20,000 photos, that brings the chances I have a falsely flagged photo to 1 in 50 million. Not quite such spectacular odds then.
    One in a trillion over 20,000 photos is not 1 in 50 million. It's one in a trillion, 20,000 times. The odds do not decrease per photo, as your photo library increases in size. There is not a 1:1 guarantee of a falsely flagged photo in a trillion-strong photo library.

    And even if it was, one in 50 million is still pretty spectacularly against.
    One in 50 million with over 1 billion accounts is 200 false positives per year.
    But Apple might claim the false positive rate is per account, not per photo.
    These statistics are, however, under idealized (perfectly random) circumstances and real data typically doesn't look entirely random.
    The false positive rate is probably per account, considering the SHA-256 collision rate is one in 4 * 10^60 processes. 

    That's four novemdecillion hashes. Had to look that one up.
    Many assumptions are behind the false positive rate calculation Apple provided, and we can't be certain Apple has accounted for everything. For instance, if a given photo can be hashed 1000 different ways, that increases the likelihood of a false match by up to 1000-fold (a Bonferroni correction) and a conservative estimate would use that 1000x factor. Is Apple being conservative in their estimates?
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