sarahjamielewis

If you want a vision of the future, imagine an endless line of do-nothing, jobsworth, bureaucrats demanding you use ever less secure forms of communication - forever.

2022-05-11 View on X

Politico

Leaked proposal: the European Union plans to release a draft law this week that requires tech companies to scan for CSAM and threatens end-to-end encryption

Brussels is bracing for one of its biggest and most emotional tech fights yet as companies face stringent new rules to clamp down on sexual abuse material.

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Took Apple a month from first publishing the proposal to move to “we have decided to take additional time [before rolling this out]”. In a world where so much is forgotten in a 24-hour news cycle, to see a surveillance issue stay relevant for that long is somewhat optimistic.

2021-09-05 View on X

9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

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Took Apple a month from first publishing the proposal to move to “we have decided to take additional time [before rolling this out]”. In a world where so much is forgotten in a 24-hour news cycle, to see a surveillance issue stay relevant for that long is somewhat optimistic.

2021-09-04 View on X

9to5Mac

Apple delays the rollout of recently announced child safety features, says it will take more time to collect feedback from stakeholders and make improvements

Last month, Apple announced a handful of new child safety features that proved to be controversial, including CSAM detection features for iCloud Photos.

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Hashes generated using the instructions / script found here: https://github.com/...

2021-08-19 View on X

VICE

Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use

Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.

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Both these images have NeuralHash: 1e986d5d29ed011a579bfdea Just a reminder that visually similar images are not necessarily semantically similar images. https://twitter.com/...

2021-08-19 View on X

VICE

Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use

Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.

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As I said, finding specific (funny) collisions is trivial for perceptual hashes. To be fair to Apple NeuralHash does seem at least somewhat resistant to -random- collisions (over the small set of tens of thousands of images I've thrown at it today...). https://twitter.com/...

2021-08-19 View on X

VICE

Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use

Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.

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The Apple system dedupes photos, but burst shots are semantically *different* photos with the same subject - and an unlucky match on a burst shot could lead to multiple match events on the back end if the system isn't implemented to defend against that.

2021-08-19 View on X

VICE

Apple says NeuralHash flaw found by researchers in CSAM detection system was in a generic version of the software and not in the final version it plans to use

Apple said the version of NeuralHash analyzed by researchers is not the final version that will be used for iCloud Photos CSAM detection.

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Some quick calculations with the new numbers: 3-4 photos/day: 1 match every 286 days. 50 photos/day: 1 match every 20 days.

2021-08-15 View on X

MacRumors