Glad to hear Apple has killed its plans to implement privacy-destroying on-device scan and snitch into its devices (although it will make autocrats like Erdoğan unhappy to hear it because they likely had plans for it).

wired.com/story/apple-csam-sca

Here’s what I wrote about it at the time:

ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-tryi

Remember that end-to-end encryption is moot if the ends are already compromised.

#apple #privacy #security #encryption #e2ee #humanRights

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There must have been a huge shift in apple policies if they are also embracing right to repair and making things easier to fix.

@zleap @aral Seems like marketing at this point, their actual hardware has become more harder to repair and repair equipment have become even more limited.
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