“Apple is opening the door to broader abuses”. Wouldn't not doing anything open a different door to broader abuse?

Actually I believe that in regards to "not doing anything open a different door to broader abuse" - no. Starting scans will lead to broader, and no tin foil hat needed.

If we compare 1-apple starts scanning for known hashes, not "looking at all your naked pics and seeing if you've got something questionable"... this is just looking for known / already created by others / historical things... by doing a scan for one thing - they open the pandoras box to start scanning for other things - and then they will be compelled by agents to scan for other things - and I believe that is broader, much.

Next month it will be scan for any images with a hash that matches a meme with fauci - the current admin has already stated that in their desire to stop 'disinformation' they want to censor sms text messages and facebook posts (assuming also fbk DMs and more).

There is a new consortium of tech co's sharing a list of bad people who share certain pdfs and 'manifestos' or something like that now right? Might as well scan for those docs too, add all them to the list.

What power this could lead to - soon the different agencies want scans for pics of drugs, hookers.. how about a scan for those images people on whatsapp are sharing with the black guy killing a cop with a hood on?

What happens when a new admin takes the house and white house and demands scans for all the trumped a traitor pics and make a list?

See this is where the encryption backdoors go.. and where is that line drawn? Is it federal level agencies that get to scan? can a local arizona county sheriff demand a scan of all phones that have traveled through their land/air space?

Frankly, public chats, public forums.. if you post kids or drugs or whatever is not legal there - then it's gonna get the men with guns to take note. What you do in private chats / DMs, etc - I think should stay there and not go anywhere else.

I don't like the idea that Msoft employees look at naked pics of my gf that are added to a pics folder because someone setup a win system without disabling one drive. So I don't use one drive and tell others to not use it - and not put pics of me there or on fbk or tictoc.

For all those people that have nothing to hide - I feel sorry for you - but wonder if your kids/grandkids should have thousands of agents looking into their private pics just to make sure there is nothing not legal there.

so would these scans get nudes sent through whatsapp? That would kill the encryption thing there kind of.

Would this scan get a cach if someone was using a chat room and some asshat posted something they shouldn't - and every person in the chat got a pic delivered to their screen. so many questions.

I also question what the apple scans would scan as far as folders and what not.. would it scan for things in a browser cache? like not purposefully downloaded.. if someone hit a page that had a setup image on it - would that person now be flagged for inspection / seizing?

If they are working with nice guys in Cali that just want to tap people on the shoulder and have a talk with people - will they send flagged notices to agents in other places who may go in with guns drawn and end up killing people?

I'm sure many people are fine with either outcome - I think there is a difference between someone surfing the web and someone who coerces real world harm, and not all those who surf the web deserve bullets to the chest, and there is no way to control that.. well maybe in the uk where cops aren't allowed to have guns maybe.