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- utopian0
Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse
Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing applause from child protection groups but raising concern among some security researchers that the system could be misused, including by governments looking to surveil their citizens.
- Cue jokes: "oh, you use Android? Interesting."nb
- Apparently Google already does this?monospaced
- iChild®utopian
- section_0142
^^^
This is coming to Macs with the next OS as well. So much for Apple's focus on privacy. This is clearly just the tip of the iceberg, and they're leading off with something that people will support without considering how the door is wide open for Apple, the government, or whoever to scan your devices for anything and everything.
Guess I need to do a deep dive on using Linux (which I'm using for most other things already) for audio production, because I'm done with Macs if this goes through.
- so, if I take a photo of my kids in the bath it might get flagged ... greatmonospaced
- Looking into this, it seems Apple's late to the party and that Google, MS and FB have been doing this for awhile already.monospaced
- Sir, we have reason to believe you have narcotics in your home, according to the child protection act we can conduct a searchProjectile
- Isn't this what Q anon was all about?monospaced
- what do you do on your phone that you think would be of interest to apple/gov?shapesalad
- In one of my countless reference folders, I have some photos by Bill Henson and have noticed in the past that dropbox doesn't sync those.spl33nidoru
- ^ https://www.abc.net.…spl33nidoru
- @shape, it's more about once this backdoor is open, everyone's devices will be searched for anything and everything at anytime. Imagine some Trump 2.0section_014
- president ordering that everyone who said anything bad about him being rounded up. And since you've been backdoored already, you're fucked.section_014
- Newsflash. Apple have been doing this on iCloud backups since forever. They don't check the image visually, it's all hashes compared against...face_melter
- ...existing agency image databases to see if there are patterns and similarities.face_melter
- I mean, there are concerns but it's not like someone at Apple trawling through scud images of your dog wife or that tart from HR you're fucking on the side.face_melter
- Everyone has been doing it. Apple is the last to join in it seemsmonospaced
- Except, this isn't iCloud backups. It's your phone or computer. If you think this will only be used for bad images, you're being naive.section_014
- This is not just icloud backups?monospaced
- Details matter: It's only for 13-and-under users with iCloud photo sharing accounts.
https://www.macrumor…evilpeacock - Meanwhile Facebook wants to make Whatsapp the pedo's go-to platform.i_monk
- When people start saying ‘I’ve got nothing to hide, so no big deal’ you know it’s game overIanbolton
- i_monk0
My startup disk vanished this morning after a forced update overnight... The mini should be here Friday.
- Bennn0
I just read that Steve Jobs had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable but he choosed alternative treatments instead of conventional up to date treatments.
"for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined"
"Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He was also influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."
I didnt know that... Sad, he would still be alive probably.
- utopian3
The Evil List
Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know.
- They qualify their grievance with: "But compared with its competitors, these are, believe it or not, lesser sins."monospaced
- Then they conclude that they are better at privacy, make great products, are admirably in sustainability, and are a better "political actor."monospaced
- ^ doesn't matter. Apple released a boring battery case and ended up on hundreds of hyperbolic clickbait headlines.inteliboy
- So?monospaced
- Point being that's why they are on the list high up for dubious reasons.inteliboy
- i_monk0
With a dead hard drive (just days before retirement!) my trade-in is worth nothing, which is kind of surprising. I figured for an obsolete model the aluminum body and screen might be worth more than a functioning hard drive. Repairing/replacing will cost more than the trade-in value, and with no affordable way to reach the disk to ensure it's wiped clean, I guess it's going in the closet for now.
The Mini and a 32" LG monitor come sometime tomorrow. But with my luck who knows..
(And the Apple tech asked if I'd just updated the iMac, so they must know this is happening to older models.)
- Are you sure that's a truly dead hdd?
Maybe a faulty wire? Dust?grafician - Also, what year iMac?aliastime
- You can always boot off a faster external in and still use the machine. I set up a fleet of old iMacs with SSDs that way without cracking cases.evilpeacock
- If it has USB3 or TB ports any cheap SSD drive is game for an OS.evilpeacock
- @evilpeacock yeah that's a very elegant solution for old Macs, Samsung T5-7 500GB external SSDs under 100 euros these daysgrafician
- It's a late 2012. Can't tell if it's the SATA cable, dust, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if there were other issues lurking in there too, it was really slow eveni_monk
- After doubling the ram last year.i_monk
- (shipment delayed to Monday...)i_monk
- Before you write it off go to a local repair shop that does data recovery. You’d be surprised what they can do. Fuck Apple repair.monospaced
- Everything was backed up, I just need to secure/erase the hard drive.i_monk
- I mean they might fix it?monospaced
- Can you sell it for parts to that unauthorized parts place?nb
- Are you sure that's a truly dead hdd?
- sarahfailin1
innovation something something
- sarahfailin4
love this post at the beginning of this thread
"New imac looks great but why no optical drive? New ipad looks great but the 'new ipad' is now defunct - nowhere to be seen. Ipad mini is just a small ipad - not sure I see the point without the ability to make calls."9 years ago...
- nb0
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp…
Is your M1 Mac crashing? You're not alone.
First a crackling sound, then a sudden reboot. More and more users are experiencing strange crashes on their M1 Macs. So far, Apple has no comment.- Cracklinnovationutopian
- Snap crackle and popChimp
- It's moments like these that I miss having Steve Jobs around. He'd tell us we're holding it wrong or something.zarkonite
- First generation new tech from Apple is crap. Everybody knows that, except those that don't.grafician
- I have the first gen M1 Mac mini and will definitely upgrade to what comes next. No problem with it, rather, their trade in program is great.mg33
- lots of problems with minis M1 if you run an LG monitor and other stuffgrafician
- sted2
According to a recent report out of China, as long as you change the location to France, the performance of its phones will become faster and smoother. The reason for the smoothness is that Apple has been fined by France for the frequency reduction incident. This means that the company can not temper the performance of old iPhones in the country.
- grafician-6
"Tim Cook gets $750 million bonus on 10th anniversary as Apple CEO"
- Yeah, it's been a decade already.
Anyway, well deserved.grafician - Meh, it's only the average annual earning equivalent of 23,000 UK employees. Thinking about it in terms of a global kingdom, it's not actually much.Nairn
- I myself am unsure what I mean by pointing out the above. Whichever way, I'm crying.Nairn
- A CEO that takes a company from a few billions to over 2T in one decade is ...the best that ever did it?grafician
- *few hundred billiongrafician
- well deserved LOL
When enough isn't enoughutopian - Totally hopes he reads this, bro!face_melter
- Yeah, it's been a decade already.
- grafician-5
If you have a 16" MBP and it has those annoying "crack pop" noises in the speakers - just disable keyboard lighting. That will miraculously fix it.
No kidding.
- grafician-5
"APPLE PREPARING MASS PRODUCTION OF APPLE CAR BY 2024 - CNBC"
- *tires sold separatelysted
- Best of luck securing those chips boiiiinb
- *with every new release the old ones will lose 10m/h from their speedsted
- *recharge only available at apple storessted
- *driving requires an active iTunes account and face-id verificationsted
- *iTunes Subscription Requiredutopian
- *prepare for endless bad jokes about thisnb
- Only music allowed on the car stereo is U2PhanLo
- Child sexual abuse technology not included for first 5,000 miles.utopian
- They make their own chips now innitHayzilla
- LOL @ PhanloHayzilla
- utopian0
Apple delays plan to scan iPhones for child abuse.
Apple has delayed plans to roll out detection technology which would have scanned US users' iPhones in search of child sexual abuse material.
It follows widespread criticism from privacy groups and others, worried that the on-device tracking set a dangerous precedent.
Apple said that it had listened to the negative feedback and was reconsidering.There were concerns the system could be abused by authoritarian states.
The so-called NeuralHash technology would have scanned images just before they are uploaded to iCloud Photos. Then it would have matched them against known child sexual abuse material on a database maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
- https://www.bbc.com/…utopian
- It was NEVER going to scan iPhones. It was going to scan iCloud where people upload photos.monospaced
- ^^^ iCloud already scans. This was about installing scanning software directly on devices. So, yes, it was absolutely designed to scan an iPhone.section_014
- Is that right?monospaced
- They're comparing a hash of known pedophile images against hashes of your images, and if you have 30+ hits on your image library they call the FBI.zarkonite
- Gotcha.monospaced
- PhanLo0
- dumb.
a website is and was an application.
it's false to say that the internet has adapted to mobile devices. this video is a depressing bullshitsted - the author is one of those living in the world where apple invented everything and they are to blame for all the wrong in the world.sted
- it goes complete conspiracy after barely touching the surface how technology affected society through the years while reading up the apple&jobs wikipedia.sted
- dumb.
- utopian0
- o O . o (bubble) 0 . O osarahfailin
- Not a bubble though.monospaced
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