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gfretwell@aol.com> wrote
| Apple announces it will install software on your I-Phone to scan for
| objectionable content.
| What happened to that unbreakable Apple encryption? I guess there is a
| back door for Apple.
Better than a backdoor: Pre-installed spyware doing God's
work. It will be on the phone itself so that files can be scanned
before they're encrypted. As Edward Snowden and the EFF
have pointed out, part of the outrage of this is the legal and
longterm implications. The problem is not just that they'll look for
child porn. The problem is that a precedent is being set that
you can be policed on your own property and your property
can be searched without a warrant... constantly... without
reasonable suspicion and without a court order. It then just
requires a minor tweak to start looking for, say, terrorism-related
words. Child porn and terrorism are foot-in-the-door issues for
people who find freedom "dangerous".
This is a blatant rejection of the 4th amendment.
The software for kids is scary in other ways. What if you
have a 15-year-old kid who's having sex? Then you get a
copy of nude photos the lovers are sending each other. If you
don't call the police, does that make you a child porn purveyor?
If one lover is 16 y.o., they will be guilty of rape in some states.
Have you just "aided and abetted" a rapist by letting your
kid have a lover? Are we all to be forced to become police
surveillance extensions? If the software makes a mistake,
how would you defend yourself? Apple found child porn item
N7TR5-SS17468 on your phone. Apple says the chance of error
is 1 in a trillion. So it's an open-and-shut case. You're going
to jail, buddyboy; you creep.
We've already got vast numbers of
home surveillance cameras reporting to police. Now your
phone will be surveilled. How would anyone then justify not
letting the inside of your home be surveilled? Once that's
allowed, how does anyone defend not installing the cameras
themselves? Have they got something to hide? As Google's
Erci Schmidt says, if you don't want to be spied on then
maybe you shouldn't be doing what you're doing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew
Ironically, the justification for this pre-installed spyware
is that the photos on Apple's servers are encrypted so they
can't be surveilled. But companies renting/lending cloud
storage space have no right to rifle through your files in
the first place, any more than a landlord has a right to
rummage through your closet. This is an end run by gov't
extremists: Get tech companies to spy because the legal status
of digital trespass is vaguely defined. Then pressure those
companies to share their data. And presto! You've got
semi-legal, totalitarian surveillance in a democracy.
We all have a dog in that fight. There could come a time
when you're not allowed to travel without your cellphone, which
will contain the record of your activities. A kind of soft fascism.
Even now people are assuming everyone has a cellphone. When
I went for my 2nd COVID shot I brought a printed copy of
the appt email, as directed. But I didn't have it on a cellphone.
So I had to go through a special, extra step, subjected
to proving my identity. There was no possible reason for such
"security". There's no security to ID via email in the first place.
I had a printed copy of the appt email and I was showing up at
the appointed time. But officials want to normalize the computerization
of society... because that's what officials do.
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