Apple's statement is the death knell for the idea that it's possible to scan everyone's comms AND preserve privacy.
Apple has many of the best cryptographers + software eng on earth + infinite $.
If they can't, no one can. (They can't. No one can.)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
> An editorial in the Washington Post argued that "smartphone users must accept that they cannot be above the law if there is a valid search warrant", and after claiming to agree that backdoors would be undesirable, then suggested implementing a "golden key" backdoor which would unlock the data with a warrant [16]
Politicians trying to have drownable fishes, as always.
Meredith Whittaker
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