@kev It would carry a lot more weight if it wasn't written by a known apple apologist.
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Sotolf :arch: :vim: :terminal: (sotolf@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Aug-2021 22:09:36 JST Sotolf :arch: :vim: :terminal: > I think Apple are setting a dangerous precedent here, but there are advantages too. When my kids are 12, if they send pictures of their junk to their peers, I would DEFINITELY want to know about it.
This technology won't stop that though, as it uses hashes for known child abuse material, and will not catch new things, only stuff that is known.
The biggest problem is with false positives here really as there are hash collisions to the algorithms that they use.