Non-zero being technically true because of the subject matter, but I don’t see how Apple’s system increases the risk of authorities killing family or pets more than server-side scanning.
Their neural hashing is new, and they claim has a one in a trillion collision rate. There are 1.5 trillion images created in the US and something like 100 million photos in the compared database. That's a heck of a lot of collisions. And that's just a single year, Apple will be comparing everyone's back catalog.
A lot of innocent people are going to get caught up in this.
We’ll have to wait and see how good their neural hashing is, but just to clarify the 1 trillion number is the “probability of incorrectly flagging a given account” according to Apple’s white paper.
I think some people think that’s the probability of a picture being incorrectly flagged, which would be more concerning given the 1.5 trillion images created in the US.
"The threshold is selected to provide an extremely low (1 in 1 trillion) probability of incorrectly flagging a given account. This is further mitigated by a manual review process wherein Apple reviews each report to confirm there is a match..."
So it's 1 in 1 trillion per account PRIOR to manual review in which the odds of error get reduced even further.
How is it that you are going to "wait and see how good their neural hashing is"? Do you think there is going to be any shred of transparency about the operation of this system? It is completely unaccountable - starting with Apple and going on to NCMEC and the FBI.
I think you're wrong about the risk (the paper says per account), but even so you need to compare it to the alternatives.
Photos in iCloud are unencrypted and Apple checks for CSAM on the unencrypted photos server side, they know of all matches.
OR
Photo hashes are checked client side and only if a certain threshold of matches is passed does Apple get notified at all (at which point there's a sanity check for false positive by a person). This would allow all photos on iCloud to be able to be encrypted e2e.
Both only happen when iCloud photo backup is enabled.
HTML and HTTP are open standards, but they're not the metaverse. The "metaverse" is supposed to be an open standard for interoperable 3D game worlds.
You could build a 3D game world inside of a browser, and people have been doing that since the 90s. We've had multiple different open and proprietary technologies that allow this: VRML, Java applets, 3D Groove SX/GX, Shockwave 3D, Flash Stage3D, WebGL, and WebGPU. However, most game worlds built this way are less like "websites but in 3D" and more like Facebook. Yes, Facebook uses HTML, but it's not part of "the web" - most of it's content requires a login and can't be scraped or searched by external sites.
An actual "metaverse built on the open web" would be possible; in the same way that comment sections, trackbacks, Gravatar, and so on made blogging into a shared space decades ago. You would need standards for a whole bunch of problems unique to 3D game worlds, including presence, chat, avatars, asset inventories, and so on. All of these would have to also be integrated with existing content-management systems (WordPress, Drupal, etc), which would also have to serve up a viewer application that actually handled our "web metaverse" thing (in the same way that browsers don't need to know about comment sections, they just need to know how to submit a form). That in and of itself has significant UX problems: maybe, you go on one particular metaverse site, and suddenly you have entirely different player movement from the last site you were on, because it loaded a different viewer.
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>A House representative said Thursday she is requesting an investigation after learning a CNN reporter was put on the federal no-fly list shortly after his investigation of the Transportation Security Administration.
>In my case, I started having trouble flying after I blew the whistle in the case of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, the first terrorism prosecution in the United States after Sept. 11. As the Justice Department ethics attorney in that case, I inadvertently learned that my e-mail records had been requested by the court. When I tried to comply, I found that the e-mails, which concluded that the FBI committed an ethics violation during its interrogation of Lindh, had been purged from the file. I managed to recover them from the bowels of my computer archives, gave them to my boss and resigned. I also took home copies in case they “disappeared” again. Eventually, in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act, I turned them over to the media when it became evident that the Justice Department withheld them from the court.
I don't know if the 215 supports tethering, but there are feature phones that do paired with a laptop or even something like a steam deck (running linux) is the way to go if you really need mobile internet
you get privacy and freedom from the smartphone-service-based-everything-forever lifesytle, it's nice
Apple's just really weird when it comes to the control they exert over devices.
they do it with 'privacy' in mind and what they come up with is usually better than the worst case but it can still be pretty iffy
eg. a few months back when their notarization/entitlement verification system was being discussed
it's all just their vision of computing (which has some merits), hyper-controlled, locked down and "safe" it's not going to change if you're not comfortable with it you really shouldn't be using their products
This is a weird mindset. Either you care about privacy or you don’t: what a person does on their device shouldn’t matter. If you only care about privacy when doing illegal things you don’t actually care about privacy you’re just a criminal not wanting to be caught.
