An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

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While moderating CP distribution and storage is obvioulsy the right thing to do, I do not think this approach will be a worthwhile endeavor for apple and governments.

Let me explain: imagine you are bad guy with bad stuff on your iphone, and you hear apple will be scanning your phone. What is the next logical thing you would do? Migrate your stuff to something else, obviously. Encrypting a usb stick does not require a high degree of technical skill; neither does running tor browser.

So I am thinking 3 things:

1. This is not about CP or doing the right thing, but rather apple bowing to government/s pressure to create a half-ass backdoor to monitor and squash dissidents.

2. Apple and government/s are incompetent and do not realize that criminals are always one step ahead.

3. Most likely, some combination of the above - government/s have demonstrated they are willing to go hard on dissidents on the personal electronics front [1], not realizing that they will only mitigate, not exterminate, the dissent they fear so much.

For the average joe, I would say this - your privacy is effectively gone when you use an electronic device that comes with closed-source code pre-installed.

For the benevolent dissidents - there are many tools at your disposal [2, 3].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

[2] https://files.gendo.ch/Books/InfoSec_for_Journalists_V1.1.pd...

[3] https://www.privacytools.io/

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