<story><title>The Problem with Perceptual Hashes</title><url>https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Given all the zero day exploits on iOS I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s now going to be viable to hack someone&amp;#x27;s phone and upload child porn to their account. Apple with happily flag the photos and then, likely, get those people arrested. Now they have to, in practice, prove they were hacked which might be impossible. Will either ruin their reputation or put them in jail for a long time. Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dylan604</author><text>&amp;gt;Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.&lt;p&gt;Given how pedophiles are treated in prison, that might be longer than your expected lifespan if you are sent to prison because of this. Of course I&amp;#x27;m taking it to the dark place, but you kinda gotta, you know?</text></comment>
<story><title>The Problem with Perceptual Hashes</title><url>https://rentafounder.com/the-problem-with-perceptual-hashes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcinzm</author><text>Given all the zero day exploits on iOS I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s now going to be viable to hack someone&amp;#x27;s phone and upload child porn to their account. Apple with happily flag the photos and then, likely, get those people arrested. Now they have to, in practice, prove they were hacked which might be impossible. Will either ruin their reputation or put them in jail for a long time. Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seph-reed</author><text>Someone is going to figure out how to make false positives, and then an entire genre of meme will be born from putting regular memes through a false positive machine, just for the lulz.&lt;p&gt;Someone else could find a way to make every single possible mutation of false positive Goatse&amp;#x2F;Lemonparty&amp;#x2F;TubGirl&amp;#x2F;etc.  Then some poor Apple employee has to check those out.</text></comment>