On: Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

[adriancr]

Today it does that. Tomorrow who knows...

It would be easy to extend this to scan for 'wrongthink'.

Next logical steps would be to scan for: confidential government documents, piracy, sensitive items, porn in some countries, LGBT content in countries where it's illegal, etc... (and not just on icloud backed up files, everything)

This could come either via Apple selling this as a product or forced by governments...

[noduerme → adriancr]

I give it a month before every Pooh Bear meme ends up part of the hash DB.

[bostonsre → noduerme]

I'd guess more like 6 months, but I agree that it will be trivial for the CCP to make them fall in line by threatening to kick them out of the market. Although... maybe they already have this ability in China.

[greesil → bostonsre]

Maybe the CCP is the entire reason they're doing this.

[KoolKat23 → greesil]

My first thought exactly. How badly do they want to operate in the Chinese market.

[cvwright → noduerme]

First it’s just CSAM

Next it’s Covid misinformation

Then eventually they’re coming for your Bernie memes