443: A Storm of Asterisks
Accidental Tech Podcast
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CSAM Detection for iCloud Photos
John Syracuse: I'm trying my darned to understand this a little better, but I need a little more time to get it 100% right. Photos are compared on device to a list of known CSAM from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Apple will provide some sort of tool to Nick Mac to scan all their files and their database. These are things that they know are bad. They will scan all that and that will generate a bunch of hash numbers which Apple can then compare your photos to.
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