sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@kkarhan @lewin@digitalcourage.social @kubikpixel @schurt3r a mandate doesn't have to be public, or even legal. in fact, such an unconstitutional abridgement of apple's 1A rights to free publishing of software would necessarily be very very quiet, a backroom deal.

@kkarhan @lewin@digitalcourage.social @kubikpixel @schurt3r you don't know that it doesn't have any mandate to exist. it's likely that clientside scanning is a prerequisite demanded by the USG before apple ships end to end encrypted cloud software that they can't spy on at will.

@kkarhan @lewin@digitalcourage.social @kubikpixel @schurt3r what you said is false. you don't need source code or reproducible builds to know what software is doing.

@lewin@digitalcourage.social @kkarhan @kubikpixel @schurt3r approximately zero people have advanced data protection enabled, and if everyone turned it on, it would be a disaster, because people lose their phone+password (and thus all their keys) all of the fucking time. sneak's law, i named it, a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k4GP3Evh9c

@lewin@digitalcourage.social @kkarhan @kubikpixel @schurt3r how do you know that apple has not implemented CSAM scanning?

@kkarhan @lewin@digitalcourage.social @kubikpixel @schurt3r

i wrote the article that that abysmally bad Mental Outlaw video mis-reports on. he makes claims that i never made in my post.

The livestream from Punxsutawney is playing the imperial march for some reason

@lewin@digitalcourage.social @kkarhan @kubikpixel @schurt3r

importantly, Apple's denial regarding their previously proposed scanning tool for *iCloud Photos* leaves them wide open to deploy on-device scanning for NON-iCloud (i.e. LOCAL) photos without lying.

Apple does this sort of PR all of the time. It exploits poor reading comprehension and causes people to misunderstand, then report and amplify those misunderstandings.

It's important to remember that all photos in iCloud are *already being scanned* svrside

@lewin@digitalcourage.social @kkarhan @kubikpixel @schurt3r

we are not talking about iCloud Photos. iCloud Photos are already scanned in iCloud by Apple for illegal content as they are not end to end encrypted.

we're talking about LOCAL, ON-DEVICE scanning for people who DO NOT USE ICLOUD.

apple's denial has nothing to do with the topic under discussion.

ok campers rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's COOOOOLD out there today

@jayinkyiv soldiers are barbarians regardless of the country. it self-selects for the violent and uncivilized. most of the russian people don't want war, same as in any country. be careful personifying nations.

rsync needs better maintainership

@puzzletrailpaul i need some webdev, email me please

so macOS automatically scans local files on your mac for malware, based on remote signatures downloaded from apple.

https://tidbits.com/2022/09/02/macoss-new-xprotect-now-regularly-scans-for-malware/

anyone wanna bet it can detect anything on your mac that apple wants to detect?

exec 1> >(logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1

@kaydenpat @stopgopfox@libretooth.gr there is no party in the US that pushes free speech (except the LP)