Apple is on the side of privacy if it serves their marketing. Which is why they would rather build and normalize CLIENT SIDE CONTENT SCANNING so they can continue to market iCloud as "secure and private".

If Apple's interests sometimes align with ours then great. I'll take it. But don't attribute to this ~5 trillion dollar company some kind of altruism.

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nozzlegear a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> If Apple's interests sometimes align with ours then great.

Altruism or not, I've found that their interests almost always align with mine when it comes to privacy.

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bigyabai 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I've found that Apple's interests are pretty fickle, concerning real-world security: https://www.securityweek.com/apple-suddenly-drops-nso-group-...

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nozzlegear 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Apple has abruptly withdrawn its lawsuit against NSO Group, citing increased risk that the legal battle might unintentionally reveal sensitive vulnerability data and difficulties in acquiring essential information from the spyware vendor.

> In a court filing Friday, Apple said continuing the lawsuit now poses “too significant a risk” of exposing the anti-exploitation and threat intelligence efforts needed to fend off the very adversaries involved in the legal dispute.

> “When it filed this lawsuit nearly three years ago, Apple recognized that it would involve sharing information with third parties. However, developments since then have reshaped the risk landscape associated with sharing such information,” the Cupertino device maker said.

I mean, iOS has never been open source so Apple has always practiced security through obscurity. It doesn't seem unreasonable that they'd be concerned about this. Idk, seems like a nothingburger but maybe I'm wrong.

	▲	bigyabai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1307138-we-did-it-patrick-we... Dropping the case is great for Apple's obscurity, but terrible for enforcing the security of iOS users that are still vulnerable to Pegasus malware. Now NSO Group is not threatened or deterred, which is the worst of all worlds for iOS security.