if you believe their paper no. it’s gonna land in ios 15. they have to ship the db and enable the functionality.
also this applies to new pictures (not what you already have)
again, if you believe what they are sharing
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also this applies to new pictures (not what you already have)
again, if you believe what they are sharing
Summary for the lazy: - this is going to be out in ios15
- Apple will build and push a database of hashes with every update
- these hashes will be used to verify against the pics before they are uploaded to icloud and generate a "voucher"
- once a certain threshold of vouchers is passed, Apple will be able to decrypt the pictures in questions (all this discussion seems to assume Apple does not have access to icloud pictures - so maybe they are preparing to rollout full encrypted backups???)
- the crypto stuff is interesting
- the scary part is that there is nothing preventing Apple to do the same thing with other thing on your phone (assuming there is a way to generate a good enough matching hash - I can see how this could be easily extended to basically anything that's stored on the phone)
There is the problem right there. How can you tell that Apple is doing their best to preserve privacy vs doing their best to server their own interests?
If congress passes laws, those laws are in the open and we have a whole process dedicated to passing new laws. Here is something you maybe did not consider: passing those laws would be hard impossible without basically sacrificing any political capital the washed up political class still has in today's US (have you noticed how even the smallest issues is a big political issue and how congress doesn't seem to get much done nowadays?)
The 2nd part is that not the DOJ, FBI, NSA doing their job is the problem. The problem is mass surveillance. The same mass surveillance we have been subjected to keeps getting expanded to the point you will no longer be able to think anything else except what's approved by the people in power (if you think the thought police is a ridiculous concept, we are definitely heading that way).
Apple's shtick was that they cared about privacy. If they didn't do that dog and pony show maybe I would have written this off as "corporations being corporations". Now they don't get that.
> If you don't want to use cloud photo services because you don't like the implications, they are very upfront; disable iCloud photos. You don't seem to get it. It's not about some fucking photos. Who cares. It's about what this open the door to. And about how this is going to be abused and expanded by "law enforcement".
In a world where you have shit like Pegasus and mass surveillance, you are one API call away from going to jail without even knowing what triggered it and being able to defend yourself. Probable cause? Fuck that. Everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
Who is to say once they start doing this they will not extend their capabilities and monitor everything on the device? This is the direction we’re heading in.
For me this is my last iphone. And probably my last mac. the hardware is nice, shiny ams usable but you cannot do shit like this after you sell everyone on privacy.
What would a company that cares about privacy do? you don’t scan any of my things without explaining why and getting my consent. That’s privacy
To me it’s sort of implied that it’s unneeded complexity when we talk about it as something that should not be there and it’s making our life hard.
They have failed miserably both at controlling the spread of the disease and informing the public.
Instead of focusing on what they should be doing they are playing the politics and the CYA game. Disgusting.
Crypto transfers are slow? jesus, did tou ever do a wire? have you seen moving something take days? compared to that minutes is instant.
You’re gonna tell me about CC processing next. Hate to break it to you but when you’re paying with a CC you’re not actually paying. An auth happens but the real payment happens when the transaction is settled (days later). So: days vs minutes in BTC case. wow, crypto sooo slow.
Macro economic policy? Oh yeah. That is working really really well. The government working to protect you.
> no one is trying to ban crypto no one is trying to ban it yet. I’m giving it 5 years until it’s outright banned.
Also, if you cripple something to the point where it’s unusable it’s virtually the same as banning it.
X=guns Are guns causing more harm than good? Should we ban guns?
X=religion. Is religion causing more harm than good? Should we ban any form of religion?
X=social media. Is social media causing more harm than good? I heard Facebook consumes more power than the entire state of Argentina! Should we ban Facebook?
X=USD the dollar. 95% of criminal activity uses USD. 95%! It’s clear to me that if no dollar we could prevent a lot of criminal activity. Should we ban the USD?
X=VPNs Used to circumvent local laws!!! Are the causing more harm than good? Ban VPNs you say?
You’ll hear about net benefits to society (like those are easy to measure), about power consumption (like all if a sudden everyone is an arbiter of the market and decided: too much power), about how it’s a ponzi scheme (without understanding what a ponzi scheme is). All talking point of the anti-cryptocurrency agenda.
Curious to see how/if this changes in the next 5-10 years.
I mean CDC lied about COVID repeatedly and issued guidance that was disastrous. Remember the whole “you don’t need masks unless you’re a doctor” in the beginning? How about withholding critical information about spread? How about underreported numbers? CDC is at this point a clown gathering and have 0 credibility. 0
there is no way average joe can figure all these things out on a limited budget + limited time
evolutionary considerations are a part if everything. you cannot ignore how you got here and biology
also, start with this and do a bit of research:
Don’t get me wrong. Eating a mostly-plant based diet is okay and doable but I’m talking the last 5-10% territory.
Is it possible that evolutionary consuming meat gives you an advantage?
https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/brain-food-children-nutr...
Yes, it’s terrible how animals are being treated and yes mass consumption of meat has some terrible side effects.
With that being said: do you think that in the wild a predator will think twice about killing and eating their pray? do you think that every person on Earth could turn vegetarian and be able to get a healthy diet tomorrow?
for bitcoin there is no central authority. the reward for winning is “fixed” and claiming the said reward is dependent on a network that validates that you indeed have the work that incorporates pending transactions into the blockchain. also, “winning” happens at regular intervals of time (average 10 minutes based on difficulty), and what you’re winning is somewhat fixed (the block reward is fixed + some TX fees var).
so it’s not a lottery.
you know what’s the preferred currency for crime? the USD.
If you look at how something, a tool, is used and declare it bad I’m not sure you’re seeing the big picture.
A hammer can be used in construction or to bash someone’s brains out. Nobody ever mentions banning hammers because someone used one in a f’ed up way.
for the environmental damage part: in a free market you cannot really control what people are doing with energy. You use the energy, you pay the bill. End of story. If the profit you’re making from the activity is greater that the money you are putting in people will do that activity.
The energy consumption and the high prices of GPU comes down to capitalism and freedom of choice. Who are you to decide on what we should spend energy on and what we should not spend energy on? If an activity yields more money that it consumes (even if it's in the form of an electrical bill) people are going to do that activity.
why would the miners discard a transaction and not another one given that the value they extract is the same?