Now providers aren’t expected to just identify known previous material as Apple was, but to identify new material, and to identify any chats that seem to be “grooming.” I don’t think you can do that without cracking the crypto open…
Anyway, now seems a good time to continue building out alternative infrastructure. Before long, the “darknet” will be the only place you can have a private conversation.
Not just a private conversation, but to not get arrested/records (even if innocent) of being suspected for this by a bad joke, or talking about research on the problem or solutions, or even just passing around a good meme image that has what looks like an underage person in it.
We just do NOT have AI good enough to check new material. Even the previously identified material is iffy enough with our existing tools.
That’s about my view of it. “Oh, hey, Apple thinks they can do it, so we can now mandate this thing that clearly is technically possible, just, we want them to do more.”
When legislators get involved, you’ve already lost. You don’t need a darknet. All of your input and output devices can be forced to surveil all possible content. You now need dark hardware.
Seriously. That was a weird one to drag up. At least my “… uh, sooooo… this was written after a month of hacking with it, please don’t treat it as current!” update ended up towards the top.
Sure, you’ll ruin the privacy of a continent. But think of the profits!
Ugh. That’s… even worse than politicians dreaming up something they think would be useful and totally possible if people just nerd harder. Writing legislation based on a glossy brochure.