A lot of stuff the government bans doesnt align with morrality. In this instance it fucken does
Yes getting someone to drop this on your hard drive even if its explicitly labeled "cache" is equivilant to evidence planting. It puts you in danger of our laws falsely finding you guilty (misunderstandings are a thing, i dont know the level of risk). The advice by our governments is "delete it emedately". Follow it as completely as you can. Most devices dont broadcast your harddrive contents without warning, giving you time to delete it. For this being false for iphones, Its a risk to ones personal freedom to go on lemmy on an iphone until we can get this CSAM issue resolved.
Yes, its a virus, the FBI will target anyone who is a host. anyone Who has it on their drive, (edit: intent may be relivant, im no expert). The only way to stay safe is to rid yourself of it. Delete it.
Dont forget they are doing this to harm others, they deserve the name "e-terrorist" or simmlar. hey are still absolutely pedophiles. Their bombing out a space, not trying to set up shop.
Apple willingly made that tech, however its designed to get the individual in trouble by looking at the photos from their personal device and snitching on its owner (leaking them in the process). They can easly adapt it into a tool for social media, but it goes against their beleafs.
Mabe FIDO for identity purposes is a good idea. Mabe some process that takes a week to calculate an identity token and an approval and rejection system for known tokens
Its probably a lot of diffrent people with their own unique false flags. Saw sombody waving a false communist flag, disrupting lemmy.world, accedentially attacked my own people in my annoyance.
Anything notorios for hype, has its hype based marketing shills that drown out the real information and honest voices. Excelant example is anything involving sex
These bad actors are wierd, most who spread CSAM dont want to be known about by the masses, these posts are implied to be attempting to be visible as their posting in a well known community. It feels Sus.
Keep up the good work keeping us safe, keep your therapist and/or support network in the loop about this so they can catch you if you fall.
Your comment explains exactly why saying "kids are dumb" is too reductive. We dont have to all be rocket scientists, but there is a bar that most humans naturally surpass. The most gross people on this earth want to artifitially put people below that bar and keep them as slaves and/or pets. Wether they have suceeded is debateable. Im describing addictive things. Sadly, Youtube, a home for real and fake people alike to make interesting stuff, doesnt matter because the site uses content as bait, a system to keep you hooked.
Big problem with modern software is where you aggrogate diffrent 'views' of data without making it clear what your looking at, mom gets confused where her documents run off to when they disappear from 'recently used'. Dont know how it works and it controls you.
It might be in the works, comment