This goes way beyond fingerprinting for CSAM detection. local device hidden nudes is now a target for hackers.
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This has nothing to do with the Files app, nor does it have anything to do with re-indexing of the Photos library. This has to do with fighting CSAM. Apple has started (in this or a previous update), to scan your device (including deleted files) for anything containing nudity (search for "brasserie") and adding it to your photos library in a way that it is hidden. That way, anything that the models detect as nudity is stored in your iCloud database permanently. Apple is doing this because it allows them to screen for unknown CSAM material. Currently it can only recognize known fingerprints, but doing this allows them (and the other parties that have access to your iCloud data) to analyze unknown media.
The bug mentioned here accidentally made those visible to the user. The change visible updates the assets in the library in a way that removes the invisibility flag, hence people noticing that there are old nudes in their library that they cannot delete.
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And speaking of deleting things, things are never really deleted. The iPhone keeps a record of messages you delete and media, inside the KnowledgeC database. This is often used for forensic purposes. Apple is migrating this to the Biome database, which has the benefit of being synchronized to iCloud. It is used to feed Siri with information, among other things. Anything you type into your devices, or fingerprints of anything you view are sent to Apple's servers and saved. Spooky, if you ask me. But the only way we can have useful digital assistants is when they have access to everything, that's just how it works.
Nudes are meant to persist on iPhone. You're just not meant to notice.
I wonder how good this model would be at an obfuscated code challenge.
Only 91 percent?!
I second keepass. It's running in at least half the secure environments we all rely on anyway.
This is all they really said IMO:
My tendency these days is to try to use the term “machine learning” rather than AI
They determined that the Gmail address was created on August 15, 2022 at an IP address associated with the Los Angeles residence of Darien's grandmother. They further found that the recovery phone number for the TJFOUST9 account was associated with a T-Mobile US account registered to Darien.
Some incredible opsec right there /s
The initial results showed something that should have been obvious to anyone: *More data beats more parameters.
That makes a lot of sense!
Might be factoring in more than just state income tax. There's also sales tax, property tax, etc.
Purely speculation but, I wonder if this is a case of having some old, very low quality photos and trying to enhance and upscale them for the show.
Kinda buried the headline
A Royal Mail executive does admit that its "overly sensitive" machines can sometimes wrongly flag genuine stamps as fake
They are charging £5 (to the recipient) for these false positives!
When asked why the machine might be wrongly flagging a legitimate stamp, the executive replied: “I mean who knows ..."
Richard Trinder, the chairman of a campaign group that represents those wrongly convicted in the Horizon IT scandal, said: “It goes without saying that postmasters do not want to have to deal with false accusations about something else.”
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