A firestorm erupted over Apple’s new “Expanded Protections for Children” measures aimed at cracking down on child sexual abuse material (CSAM) The flashpoint for cryptographers, cybersecurity specialists, and privacy advocates is Apple’s planned use of “new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy” The problem is that this system could be the tip of the spear that essentially provides an encryption backdoor that the US and other global authorities have sought since the 1990s. Over 4,000 security and privacy experts, including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, signed An Open Letter Against Apple’s Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology.”]