After criticism, Apple to only seek abuse images flagged in multiple nations
And... Apple misses the point of the criticism completely.This problem is the capability, not what it's used for. Any such capability will be abused by new use cases be it terrorism, drug trafficking, human trafficking or whatever. Plus there will inevitably be unauthorized access.The only way to prevent all this is for the system not to exist.I don't buy into theories that Apple is being pressured or coerced on any of this. I believe it's far more likely this is just tone-deaf but well-intentioned incompetence. It's classic "why won't anyone think of the children?" and we've seen it time and time again with encryption backdoors and similar.The big question for me is how and why Tim Cook and Apple's board signed off on a plan to do huge damage to Apple's reputation and user trust. If they didn't know, it's a problem. If they knew and didn't realize the inevitable backlash, well that's a different problem.