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merpnderp
on Aug 12, 2021
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Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveil...
If they don't keep track of which matches are false positives, wouldn't it be possible to be extremely unlucky and pass the threshold with nothing but false positives generated by Apple?
This makes things worse not better.
occamrazor
on Aug 12, 2021
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No, the vouchers attached to the fake positives do not provide information for decrypting the images
merpnderp
on Aug 13, 2021
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So then it is possible to determine which vouchers are real and which are fake, and a court can still order a query for everyone with N-1 hits.
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This makes things worse not better.