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> A bunch of people are making speculative claims that Apple is doing this to enable encryption of data in iCloud, but there's no reason to believe that's true. Apple certainly hasn't mentioned it.

There is nothing surprising here. Apple never mentions things unless it’s ready for release or is just about to be released. It’s just how Apple works.

Here's my hope: E2E encryption. Maybe the government is throwing a fit about Apple harboring potential CP on its server if it's E2E encrypted, so apple says, "fine well review it prior to upload, and then E2E encrypt the upload itself"

I can hope, I guess...

> "we need to scan your phone because we need to look for this material, and by the way, we're only scanning things _we've been scanning for years already_"

As far as we know, Apple is not already using their decryption keys to decrypt images upload to iCloud and compare them with known images. That's according to this blog post that claims Apple make very few reports to the NCMEC:

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...

And, it’s absurdly defeat-able. Which means there’ll be an escalation. Whether in v2 or beyond, this will get worse / more intrusive.