Surprised by pushback over their massive violation of the privacy of children, Apple poured oil on troubled waters... And lit it on fire.
Apple distributed an internal memo today which referred to pushback against its new content surveillance measures as "the screeching voices of the minority." I have nothing to add. pic.twitter.com/6R9moiekyN
Dismissing the entire security community, which has universally decried this, and the entire privacy community likewise as "screeching voices of the minority" shows exactly where this is coming from.
They are fully aware that what they are doing is wrong. They know it will harm people. That's why they kept it secret. They just don't care.
This is the end result of intellectual monoculture. To whatever small extent they spoke to any security or privacy advocates about this, their concerns were overridden because by definition anyone objecting to this was evil.
Cupertino delenda est.
Google is no better, except that - well, we'll get to that in a moment.
Perceptual hashes are numbers that are supposed to represent what a picture looks like. They're what Apple plan to use to spy on children. Click through to that link to see what a computer considers a match of perceptual hashes of two images. I won't spoil it for you.
Weve had personal computers for decades and there has never been a mandate to scan the private content of all desktops, laptops or phones globally for unlawful content. Its not how technology built in free countries works.
All the good stuff, none of the bad stuff, which is possible because despite all of Google's flaws (we'd need a bigger blog if we went down that road) Android itself is open-source.
The problem with CalyxOS is that it only supports a handful of devices, mostly Google Pixels. So you're still stuck with Google. There are other projects with similar goals though.
The bill as written would regulate and tax pretty much anyone and anything related to the blockchain. The proposed amendment would relax these rules but only on proof-of-work blockchains - that is, the ones that have made graphics cards vanish from the shelves and use more electricity than most countries.
Disclaimer: Damn you and your fairy stories, they're smashing up my house!