Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
I&#x27;ve been maintaining a spare phone running lineage os exactly in case something like this happened - I love the apple watch and apple ecosystem, but this is such a flagrant abuse of their position as Maintainers Of The Device that I have no choice but to switch.<p>Fortunately, my email is on a paid provider (fastmail), and my photos are on a NAS, I&#x27;ve worked hard to get all of my friends on Signal. While I still use google maps, I&#x27;ve been trialing out OSM alternatives for a minute.<p>The things they&#x27;ve described are in general, reasonable and probably good in the moral sense. However, I&#x27;m not sure that I support what they are implementing for child accounts (as a queer kid, I was terrified of my parents finding out). On the surface, it seems good - but I am concerned about other snooping features that this portents.<p>However, with icloud photos csam, it is also a horrifying precedent that the device I put my life into is scanning my photos and reporting on bad behavior (even if the initial dataset is the most reprehensible behavior).<p>I&#x27;m saddened by Apple&#x27;s decision, and I hope they recant, because it&#x27;s the only way I will continue to use their platform.