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ec109685 on Dec 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud

It wasn’t scanning photos looking for csam, it was computing a fingerprint of every photo that could only be read on the server if 5 of those fingerprints matched known csam.

I can’t see how that is worse than unencrypted photos in the cloud that can be scanned at any time server side.

stjohnswarts on Dec 8, 2022 [–]

It's a proxy for scanning on your phone and reporting to the government. Toe-mae-toe toe-mah-toe

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