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You must surely realise that there’s a fairly large difference between being strip-searched and having a hash computed on one of your photos that you’re uploading to iCloud.


Don't see any difference. In both cases your private property forcibly accessed without any reason to suspect you, but rather out of preventive reasons.


You must surely realize that slippery slopes exist. And as soon as adversarial code exists in your device, it will only expand.

Reference: history of literally every dictatorship includes many "reasonable" expansions of power in the name of security/safety/etc...


Yes, but I think you’d agree that each slippery slope has a certain degree of probability.

The slippery slope from Apple checking image hashes to hourly strip-searches seems rather unlikely, which makes your analogy unhelpful.




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