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I am not sure the right questions are being asked.

1. Who is adding these photos to NCMEC? 2. How often are these photos added? 3. How many people have access to these photos - both adding and viewing?

Everyone is focused on Apple and no one is looking at MCMEC. If I wanted to plant a Trojan horse, I would point everyone towards Apple and perform all of the dirty work on the NCMEC end of things.

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Exactly. An unknown mechanism adds hashes to a NGO subject to exactly what conditions?

This initiative makes me extremely leery of black boxes, to the extent that any algorithm between subject and accusation had damned well better be explainable outside the algorithm; else I as a jury member am bound to render a "not guilty" verdict.

Their system needs real images in the training phase, because they are building the system which produces hashes. There must be someone to confirm from Apple, that indeed correct photos are flagged. At least in the beginning.

We don’t know really how adding new hashes work. NCMEC has the whole new algorithm and they drag-n-drop new images? Hopefully not like that.

Welcome to "rejected in voire dire".

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