Aug 20 2021

Appleā€™s iPhone Backdoor

Category: Backdoor,Information Security,Smart PhoneDISC @ 11:43 am

More on Appleā€™s iPhone Backdoor

In this post, Iā€™ll collect links on Appleā€™s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links areĀ hereĀ andĀ here.

AppleĀ saysĀ that hash collisions in its CSAM detection system were expected, and not a concern. Iā€™m not convinced that this secondary system was originally part of the design, since it wasnā€™t discussed in the original specification.

GoodĀ op-edĀ from a group of Princeton researchers who developed a similar system:

Our system could be easily repurposed for surveillance and censorship. The design wasnā€™t restricted to a specific category of content; a service could simply swap in any content-matching database, and the person using that service would be none the wiser.

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