Apple Privacy Issues

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Cross posting… didn’t realize there was a separate thread…

Vulnerabilities

Apple’s NeuralHash Algorithm Has Been Reverse-Engineered - Schneier on Security Early tests show that it can tolerate image resizing and compression, but not cropping or rotations. Um… Not “reverse engineered” as such. It has been extracted from iOS 14.3, where it was already, unannounced, and put in a test harness. The investigators demonstrated two images, quite distinct, with the same hash, which means Bad Guys can launch DOS attacks by generating n → ∞ matching images and overloadin…