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Comment by jsonne | Hacker News Reader

I couldn't believe it. This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

It really does seem like something an elite private club would do to get a laugh out of fooling the proles while smoking a cigar and browsing the pictures.

It's more like oblivious high-paid product managers and devs who can't fathom why people wouldn't trust Facebook or that Facebook might not be a purely beneficial organization.

I think you've completely missed the point here.

Teenagers who have naked photos in the possession of their peers need a solution for preventing dissemination.

And so if you're in this situation trusting Facebook is by far the lesser of two evils.

How is Facebook legally able to solicit child pornography? Because it sounds like that's what they're doing.

> they "trust me" ... dumb f*cks

Sexting is quite common about young adults and so is the subsequent sharing of those photos. Being able to stop that from happening is incredibly valuable.

I am just surprised Facebook didn't instead look at a way of running these image hashing algorithms on the device instead.

I think they look for modifications of the photo as well so a cropping/tilt/text overlay/etc would still be flagged. Their model might require per-processing beyond what they can or want to deploy on-device.

There is a much better way to stop it happening.

And that would be what, exactly ?

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