Soldato
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Is the podcast app still trash?
Yes, I just carried on using overcast. Far superior in every way.
Is the podcast app still trash?
Public betas are up if anyone is interested. I’m installing across the board now.
How have you found it? I was considering going for it but heard a few horror stories.
it does seem a minor upgrade, seems that's the approach they are taking across the product software line this year...
It looks like it's comparing the hash of images uploaded to iCloud with hashes of images known to contain child abuse.
What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. If you have pictures of child abuse on your phone and you upload them to iCloud, they'll get flagged. I don't see a problem with this.
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It's the modern equivalent of someone taking their film to Boots to be developed, someone spots a picture of kiddy fiddling and calls the police or Gary Glitter taking his computer to PC World, them spotting child porn and getting him arrested. I don't see a problem with it.
Because "what happens if this is extended to any crime?" is irrelevant here. It's something plucked out of thin air, like all the rumours we see every year about new Apple devices.You totally ignored all the other points I mentioned in favour of the "won't somebody think of the children" argument.
Again only if going to the cloud and against known images.
It's the modern equivalent of someone taking their film to Boots to be developed, someone spots a picture of kiddy fiddling and calls the police....
Because "what happens if this is extended to any crime?" is irrelevant here.
If some party/government/entity wanted to abuse this to cover other things, they could if they wanted to anyway, we can't stop them even if we wanted to.
where can a privacy conscious individual turn now for a device that can't be scanned at will by big tech on the demand of government?
So I’m not going to say too much, but I have experience of the authorities picking up on something across the Atlantic and notifying our guys here and arresting somebody. I am eternally grateful to them for that and with that in mind I fully back CSAM. I understand the concerns though.It's no surprising and this was the next logical step for Apple (or anyone) to "Scan" (read, snoop on) personal devices as they backed down on encrypting iCloud and hand out backups to agencies, were already scanning them for illicit material (same as other providers to be fair) and they have a lot of pressure from agencies and governments to "do more".
Problem is, it sets precedence for other providers to go down the same route so i imagine Google/Microsoft et all won't be far behind.
Two massive questions that i can see are what happens when something is flagged (rightly or wrongly) - do Apple then remotely download the source material (privacy issues) and manually check, or do they just go straight to alerting authorities resulting in people getting knocks on the door?
Secondly, what happens when a country demands for the scope to be changed (in the same way countries demand access to servers/infrastructure) to include, for example, propaganda material - will Apple roll over like they did with iCloud backups?
And there's been many, many false accusations (famously Julia Somerville) which were completely innocent and this tool will do exactly the same as it's trained to be a big fishing net and not match exacts (ie - fuzzy hashing). Plus AI image recognition has been shown to be easily duped.
Wish that was the case but considering past history with tools being developed to help governments/agencies fight crime, they've ultimately been used for illegitimate reasons such as snooping on PM's/Presidents, heads of state, charity workers and journalists.
I'm sure they already do, as you say it's not exactly new technology. Issue is, it's giving governments another very powerful tool that will unfortunately lead to more harm than good and will cause a lot of problems for innocent folk.
AOSP or known "harden" OS's i suspect.
Either way, (common-sense would suggest that) criminals will shift to other platforms and will already be encrypting data which will be out of the scope of the "scanner" so it's all a bit pointless; in the same was as backdooring encryption - it only screws the average user.