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Hopefully so they can remove their current ability to decrypt user photos for whatever reason they want. The current state is they can decrypt any user photos o
by davidcbc 5y ago
Hopefully so they can remove their current ability to decrypt user photos for whatever reason they want. The current state is they can decrypt any user photos on iCloud. Doing client side scanning and this CSAM detection implementation could allow them to remove their ability to decrypt EXCEPT in very specific situations.
It's not true end-to-end encryption since in some cases the content can be decrypted without the user key but it's significantly closer than what they have today.
That being said I don't know if that is their plan or not, but it is a plausible reason to make this change.
- ScoobleDoodle 5y agoIf they can decrypt in a “specialized” situation, then they can decrypt in any situation. All that has to be done is to broaden the classifier step by step. Or someone else gets access to the back door. That’s why there can be zero allowed back doors.
- Thorrez 5y agoThey can decrypt iCloud content currently, so it wouldn't be a step back. On the topic of backdoors, automatic update systems could be used as backdoors.
- shuckles 5y agoProbably why every system update requires passcode input.
- shuckles 5y agoThe database ships with iOS. Apple can do anything they want in iOS updates. In fact, this was exactly the “back door” the FBI requested Apple use half a decade ago. Per this standard, all Apple end to end products are already backdoored, and nothing new was announced.
- dcow 5y agoYes but previously Apple’s stance was, “no we won’t do that”. And so they earned many’s trust. Now they are planning to do exactly that. And so they have broken the trust they earned.
- shuckles 5y agoWhere specifically did Apple say they will never try to detect for the presence of CSAM in your iCloud Photo Library? In fact, people mistakenly assume that they do already.