Its a nuanced conversation, but there two fundamental points that Apple totally missed.: 1) Don't build a system for reporting what images people make, store,

Its a nuanced conversation, but there two fundamental points that Apple totally missed.: 1) Don't build a system for reporting what images people make, store, or send privately. That is just begging for someone to force you to abuse it for things that aren't CSAM. You shouldn't expect Apple to be able to resist pressure to abuse such a system. 1)they already caved to China by basically handing iCloud + iMessage key infra to a local company. 2) The entire reason you have encrypted systems(and make no mistake, this entire scheme only makes sense to scan encrypted content) is precisely for the day when the social and repetitional guarantees of "trust us" fail. 2) We need alternative ways to stop grooming and effectively get the major players who produce CSAM. And that's not going to come from scanning for CSAM NCMEC already knows about. Yes, resharing images harms the victim, but if you have a finite amount of resources, you go after the original image production and the people literally raping kids. And indeed, thats apparently what the FBI does and why they mostly ignore reports flagged by these systems.