YokoSix

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by YokoSix 4y ago
“Dates and times when a file or object was modified are used to sort a user’s information, and checksums of file and photo data are used to help Apple de-duplicate and optimize the user’s iCloud and device storage—all without having access
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by YokoSix 5y ago
>Bound to a political party or another That's the difference between Fox News and RT. Even though the US president is a democrat now, Fox News is still broadcasting Republican views. But as soon as Russia replaces its president, RT
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by YokoSix 5y ago
It is not. The BBC is public owned.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Are you really comparing state-owned agencies to independent media companies?
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Thanks for this, I'm going to try it on my personal website.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
That's really cool. I'm shifting my digital life from my MacBook to my iPhone right now - and blogging from my notes app sounds like an easy way to stay in touch with the world.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Axel Springer's biggest newspaper is BILD - and it's like the German version of The Sun in Great Britain. The reception section in BILD's Wikipedia article has some interesting "highlights" from the paper's his
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by YokoSix 5y ago
> * Apple should be fined to impose such a huge internet traffic for... nothing: each iOS or here macOS minor update weighs hundreds of megabytes, sometimes even gigabytes* Most YouTube videos and Netflix movies I watch use more bandwidt
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Great project. I‘d love to use Linux on a M1 and hope the developer makes it happen. Even adore the name.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
This gets better every day. It‘s really interesting how Apple destroyed its heavily marketed privacy image in like two days. And instead of stopping they double down with every new press release. That‘s really some courage right there.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
The question is why Apple implemented this feature in the first place. There was no reason for them to suddenly expand their image scanning to the devices themselves and risk their position as the self-proclaimed saviors of privacy - and st
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by YokoSix 5y ago
> The same set of hashes is stored in the operating system of every iPhone and iPad user, so targeted attacks against only specific individuals are not possible under our design. The problem with this sentence is that Apple assumes tha
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by YokoSix 5y ago
They also could embed the whole database into iOS and activate certain hashes only for certain iCloud accounts. No one would know because the database is encrypted multiple times.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
I thought about that as well. They rushed to publish some unpolished PR pieces and FAQs right after the announcement and at very unusual times (3am in Cupertino) trying to damage control so my guess would be as well that they didn't ev
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by YokoSix 5y ago
My guess is that they're going to put it into the macOS Photos app. Those images are already scanned for people, animals and objects so it should be easy for them to implement the child protection database there.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
It's the same as with parents photographing their naked babies in the bathtub. Those images won't be flagged because they aren't in the database provided to Apple. Only verified illegal photos should be in the database. So yo
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by YokoSix 5y ago
For now.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
> Can non-CSAM images be “injected” into the system to flag accounts for things other than CSAM? Our process is designed to prevent that from happening. The set of image hashes used for matching are from known, existing images of CSAM t
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Compute Apple NeuralHash for a given image(github.com)
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by YokoSix 5y ago
I clicked the link. Those images look like modern, colorful and expressionistic art.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Thanks for your service.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Genuine question: If those image were really generated from illegal porn, are those images themselves considered illegal? Or in other words: How much do you have to modify illegal images for them to become legal again? Or do they stay illeg
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Someone please post this to the Apple subreddit. I'd love to see hell breaking loose over there.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
For now, yes. But people are worried that that's just the first step to get the snooping service onto your phone. Because why stop here? Soon it maybe scanning photos not just destined for iCloud. And why draw the line at photos? Video
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by YokoSix 5y ago
That's the big point they don't address. Apple can't possibly check every hash of every file some obscure organization is sending to their database, especially in foreign countries. If some men in black walk into the offices
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Now even WhatsApp is more privacy oriented than Apple? It's really surprising how one day can change everything.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
I also thought about just disabling iCloud, but if they start scanning your local files it maybe won't even matter if you use iCloud or not in the future.
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by YokoSix 5y ago
My problem is: Where do I put the line? When I install Linux, should I still use Spotify, Steam and Reddit? No, because none of them are open source? Can I still use Google services? YouTube, search, mail? No? DuckDuckGo? But how do I know
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by YokoSix 5y ago
But what would I do with the code? I can’t read it, I can’t verify it, I can’t guarantee that it’s harmless. What I, as a normal user can do, is to go to the Financial Times or maybe even The Verge where they tell me that Apple did somethin
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by YokoSix 5y ago
Even if I switch macOS for open source alternatives I still have to rely on closed source software for important parts. And let’s be honest: It’s almost impossible to recreate Apple’s ecosystem with open source components. It’s even harder

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