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by websites2023 5y ago
If you’re Apple, and you’re throwing your weight around in the US bread and butter market to convince the FBI to not scan your servers for CSAM, which is more compelling: we check for it when it gets here, or we keep it off our servers usin
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by websites2023 5y ago
CSAM on the server means the server is tainted and likely to be searched by governments. Good plan to keep it off eliminates that excuse.
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by websites2023 5y ago
Everyone’s going to get COVID eventually. Natural immunity + 3 rounds of the vaccine are probably enough to make it acceptable level of deadly. “Zero COVID” was never possible.
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by websites2023 5y ago
> If this is the case there is zero reason to scan locally and you can just scan the uploaded image once it is on the server. You’re having a house party. Because of the pandemic, you’d rather people who have COVID not attend. You can’t
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by websites2023 5y ago
That this article is even necessary proves that our leadership in the west has utterly failed to convey the goal of Coronavirus suppression tactics. Either that, or the sensible message is being morphed, funhouse mirror style, even through
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by websites2023 5y ago
I already do, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s all bound up together and there are no choices I could make that mitigate the deleterious effects the industry has. You’re free to label that histrionics, but I’m the one who has to face
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by websites2023 5y ago
There is no serious threat the US Dollar as the global reserve currency. China is a currency manipulator and is teetering on the edge of collapse because of their monetary management. Bitcoin is far too unstable and represents a relinquishm
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by websites2023 5y ago
No. https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-369404345862
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by websites2023 5y ago
Off topic but your response is spot on, and a key justification for why I want out. I want out of Silicon Valley. I want out of tech, out of screens, out of all of it. I’m using COVID as an excuse to move away and start drawing down my invo
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by websites2023 5y ago
Lenovo? After Superfish? Interesting choice.
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by websites2023 5y ago
EFF lost credibility on this issue when their first statement conflated the iMessage safety for kids feature with the CSAM scanning. It’s clear that they are willing to fearmonger to raise money and aren’t committed to the cause of educatin
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by websites2023 5y ago
One would hope, but this severely overestimates the common user’s awareness of such features or their implementation on their devices. Check out this survey from 2019, where a majority of iPhone users of all stripes could not identify the p
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by websites2023 5y ago
Yep. This has already bitten one employee of Apple: https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1428495420917837826?... It's a damn shame, and a good reason to never, ever mix work and personal devices.
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by websites2023 5y ago
To be clear, the content being scanned in messages is not a hash check against a database. It’s a plain old nudity detection algorithm similar to what Facebook has.
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by websites2023 5y ago
I’m in the same boat. Unfortunately, I don’t see myself continuing to donate to them, given the terrible job they’ve done on this topic. I trusted them to bring nuance and clarity —- really liked what they did in response to the cash bail d
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by websites2023 5y ago
That being the case, why do it client side at all, when presumably every claim they make is verifiable?
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by websites2023 5y ago
There is no consumer grade device that is secure against state actors.
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by websites2023 5y ago
NECMEC isn’t owned by the government and the database of hashes is available from Apple.
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by websites2023 5y ago
Privacy means “you pay for the device so we don’t sell your attention to advertisers.” That’s it. There’s no protection against state level actors (Pegasus, CSAM scanning, etc.). If your threat model includes being the target of someone who
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by websites2023 5y ago
BigCos, take note: you’re better off doing nefarious shit without telling anyone. Because, if you come clean, you’ll only invite an endless parade of bloggers who will misconstrue your technology to make you look bad.
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by websites2023 5y ago
> PrEP has some nasty side effects. Those who take it need to get their organ function checked every few months (I think just kidneys?). Please don’t spread this FUD. The side effects are rare and reversible by stopping the medicine. Th
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by websites2023 5y ago
Absolutely. One of the best things about the US is that we have a culture which is adept at integrating immigrants. The US will stave off demographic collapse because of this.
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by websites2023 5y ago
Also the blue light thing is bullshit anyway.
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by websites2023 5y ago
> But with Apple's CSAM proposal is NOT possible to have an iPhone that Apple isn't continuously scanning This is not accurate. Scanning doesn’t happen without iCloud photos enabled.
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by websites2023 5y ago
>Food shortage is going to cause riots in US, Canada, and EU for sure The US (along with France) can easily supply all the food they need to its citizens. Along with the alliances with Mexico and Canada, the US is not going to have food
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by websites2023 5y ago
>Is there a way to disable that? It's a feature of Communication safety in Messages. This is opt-in. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
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by websites2023 5y ago
EFF conflates the CSAM detection and the iMessage safety features in the first paragraph. Disappointing that they can’t make their case with the facts.
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by websites2023 5y ago
I would have settled for an acknowledgement that users are demanding this change. No need to fake believing it’s a good thing for users or Facebook’s business, even. Simply: “Users are becoming increasingly concerned with how their data is
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by websites2023 5y ago
> With Apple and Google continuing to make changes via their browsers and operating systems, and with the changing privacy regulatory landscape, it’s important to acknowledge that digital advertising must evolve to become less reliant on
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by websites2023 5y ago
You can just not use iCloud Photos and the scanning won’t happen.

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