(Season 4) Episode 6 – Breaking Your Promises, Apple Style
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled gaming-arc to bring you BREAKING NEWS: Apple– no wait hold on- we complain about Apple a lot, but (this time especially) we have a point. Apple’s been touting itself as the best choice for privacy for.. quite a while. They’ve even been vocal about rejecting a government backdoor! …So are they really buckling?
Apple’s Privacy Friendly Past:
- CNBC, 16 January 2020, “Apple’s fight with Trump and the Justice Department is about more than two iPhones“
- WIRED, 16 April 2019, “The FBI Wanted a Back Door to the iPhone. Tim Cook Said No“
- 9to5Mac, 5 January 2019, “Ahead of CES, Apple touts ‘what happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone’ with privacy billboard in Las Vegas“
- The New York Times, 22 April 2016, “U.S. Opens Another iPhone, This Time With the Keycode“
- Apple.com, Customer Letter on Government Request
Apple On-Device Scanning (NeuralHash):
- Wccftech, 6 August 2021, “No Longer Concerned About Privacy? Apple Opens Backdoors to iPhones to Detect CSAM“
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, 5 August 2021, “Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life“
Hash Collision:
- The Verge, 23 February 2017, “Google just cracked one of the building blocks of web encryption (but don’t worry)“
- ThisHashCollisionIsNotPorn.com
- Roboflow Blog, 19 August 2021, “ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions”
- The Verge, 18 August 2021, “Apple says collision in child-abuse hashing system is not a concern“
Opinions:
- Edward Snowden’s Blog, 25 August 2021, “The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy”
EFF Petition, “Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones”
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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA