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themaninthedark on Aug 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveil...

No, it does not require Apple, NCMEC and DOJ working together.

Apple could intercept hashes that are sent and compare to their own database.

Someone in the NCMEC could add non CSAM hashes to their database.

eddyg on Aug 12, 2021 [–]

It sounds like you didn't read what I posted, and why the NCMEC can't just add arbitrary hashes.

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