Apple's on-your-iPhone #CSAM scanning — using your phone's resources to check whether you're a paedophile — is illiberal, misconceived, and dangerously architected. WORSE: they tie the hands even of those who they claim will vouch for Apple's honesty…
https://twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/1427752792714846211
Apple's "Appeal to Code Inspection" as a solution for trusting their #CSAM photo scanning is… a fig leaf. It's a PR spin meant to obscure something dirty — if they were serious, why not Open-Source iPhoto with reproducible builds? — but worse it ACTUALLY detracts from the issue. 
The ACTUAL issue is that "what happens on your iPhone no longer stays on your iPhone"; that promise is broken, and the privacy of your phone will be in constant tension with the iCloud team's ongoing attempts to coerce you to use, and pay for, locked-in cloud storage.
"But hey" — say the Apple PR team — "look, there are people called 'security researchers' who will keep us honest!"
Apple IP Lawyers, sotto-voce: "shutupshutupshutup…"
Apple Security Engineering: "Don't we try to prevent that, anyway?"
Lawyers: "shutup"
PR Team: "But, Why?"
Apple IP Lawyers, sotto-voce: "shutupshutupshutup…"
Apple Security Engineering: "Don't we try to prevent that, anyway?"
Lawyers: "shutup"
PR Team: "But, Why?"
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