Apple reportedly plans to make iOS detect child abuse photos

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Security company Corellium is offering to pay security researchers to check Apple CSAM claims, after concerns were raised about both privacy, and the potential of the system for misuse by repressive governments.

The company says that there are any number of areas in which weaknesses could exist, and they would like independent researchers to look for these…

Corellium is offering $5,000 grants, plus free use of its iOS virtualization platform for a year.

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Check Apple CSAM claims, says Corellium, offering to pay - 9to5Mac

Corellium is offering to pay security researchers to check Apple CSAM claims, after concerns were raised about both privacy...

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Corellium Open Security Initiative

In honor of Corellium’s fourth birthday, we’re announcing the Corellium Open Security Initiative to support independent public research into the security and privacy of mobile applications and devices.

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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A Bay Area doctor was charged with possessing child pornography, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

A recently unsealed federal complaint alleges that 58-year-old Joseph Andrew Mollick had at least 2,000 sexually exploitive images and videos of children on his Apple iCloud account

He is also accused of using the social media app Kik to upload one of these images.

According to healthgrades, Mollick is an oncology specialist affiliated with several Bay Area medical facilities. He is also an associate professor at UCSF School of Medicine.

Bay Area doctor found with 2k images, videos of child pornography: federal complaint

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A Bay Area doctor was charged with possessing child pornography, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. A recently unsealed federal complaint alleges that 58-yea…

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ImageNet contains naturally occurring NeuralHash collisions

NeuralHash is the perceptual hashing model that back's Apple's new CSAM (child sexual abuse material) reporting mechanism. It's an algorithm that takes an image as input and returns a 96-bit unique identifier (a hash) that should match for two images that are "the same" (besides some minor...

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Apple delays the rollout of child-safety features over privacy concerns. (Published 2021)

Apple had not expected the kind of backlash the new features faced.

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