williamh

chasm said:

netrox said:

If it's encrypted end to end, how is it possible to detect CSAM? 

That question is way above my pay grade to know, but my GUESS is that, as Apple mentioned in the original announcement, even an encrypted photo can be algorithmically searched for a certain pattern, in this case human nudity.

Now lots of perfectly innocent pictures contain some level of nudity, so — again, guessing here — that is combined with where the image was sent and/or uploaded by. If any of the recipients or senders is a child account, that plus the nudity might flag it — and then law enforcement could be contacted to obtain a court order to decrypt.

The basic concept of CSAM scanning doesn't involve searching for patterns in your images, not nudity or anything else.  The way it worked was to compare hashes of your images to a database of hashes of known CSAM images.  The database came from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which maintains hashes of the images that were proven in criminal cases to be of minors.

The concerns of having CSAM on our devices as part of the detection were unwarranted and based on a misunderstanding of how the system works.  A potential valid concern is the probability of hash collisions.  I recall Apple's response on that was that they weren't going to alert on single matches.

I really enjoyed Ted Lasso but I thought it went steadily downhill in terms of script etc.  If the Season 1 had the overall quality of Season 3, it wouldn't have been the hit it was.

Obviously, Sudeikis and Hunt won't have major roles or it wouldn't be possible to risk reaching out "at a later date."  It sounds like they have those two in mind for roles where they can literally phone it in.  (Sudeikis will have some FaceTime calls from the US., etc.)  

Obviously, it's a lot harder to come up with a new hit than to crank out another season of a successful show but that's what Apple needs to do.  And release the already completed next season of Tehran.  Tehran is apparently being held due to the Israel / Hamas conflict and if true, that really raises the question of what the hell is going on in that season that they felt the need to do that.  I'm sure curious.

I don’t know how Apple or the actors view theatrical releases but there’s no chance at all I would have gone to the theater to watch any of the movies.  I did enjoy them at home though. 

Kind of late for an April Fools joke.

sbdude said:

I love all these "tests". For a device as limited in production as this, it keeps perfectly good devices out of the hands of people who actually want them.

If you want one, go buy one. You get to decide what you do with it whether that be augmented reality, put it on the shelf, or find out if it blends.  The people who are destroying them are among the people who actually wanted them.  If that were not the case, they wouldn't have bought them.

Finding out if it's possible to damage a fragile object doesn't seem a very worthwhile pursuit, but I guess they have their reasons.