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It's removed from marketing material, but is it removed from the code?

Since the OS is proprietary, how do we know they didn't go for it anyway?

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> Since the OS is proprietary, how do we know they didn't go for it anyway?

Reverse engineering is a thing.

Have you reverse engineered iOS?

I haven't reverse engineered iOS itself because I've never had any reasons to, but I have reverse engineered third-party iOS apps (dumped from a jailbroken device) and some parts of macOS.

Well, someone did:

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/18/apples-csam-detection-reverse...

Good luck on not being more than half year behind the latest release, with decent accuracy. That really takes some effort.

An expensive, hard, long and unreliable thing.

How do you know it’s not on android?

Who cares? Weren't talking about android right now. No need for "what about" deflections of valid criticisms

That may have been simple ignorance instead of whataboutism. The person asking it may genuinely not know how much easier it is to inspect Android (both the device and the open source). They may not know you can build custom images of Android either.

Android is open source? At least you have the chance to use it like that, some tinkering required.

The AOSP code is open source. The Android and related apps running on your latest Pixel 6 is not.

The only difference between Android and iOS in this regard is that Android's frameworks are open source. The rest is exactly the same.

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