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I'm still confused about that.

I'm assuming the bad guys used a cloud service in the photoshop. Most major tech companies have matching algos to flag scrub that shit from their servers because they do not want to get caught up in an investigation.

What I don't understand is what the hell they were even photoshopping to begin with. The story doesn't make it clear why what they were photoshopping got them flagged by Adobe.

My best guess is they mixed in known illegal content (that Adobe would be able to flag) with the photoshops and it was stored in the cloud and got their account flagged.

I know the, "well, if they weren't doing something illegal, they would have nothing to worry about" argument could be used, here. But, "freedom of speech", as we are finding out these days, does not really exist. Speaking out against your government is definitely getting folks in trouble in Australia and Canada. Imagine Adobe making an agreement with any of these folks and flagging memes? Then they send them to the police so they can "round up the Nazis." Because everyone they don't like is called a Nazi so they have an excuse to abuse their human rights.

So, yeah, this whole situation is a bit off. If they can flag illegal porn content, they can flag anything. That's the problem.

Glad bad guys got caught with their own stupidity. But not glad that we live in a shitty tech dystopia.

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Yeah, the fact that Adobe observed their crimes is fucked up. It's always "think of the children" used as the foot in the door, then they expand what they're looking for to general wrongthink.

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They also tried to encrypt it using software called "keepmydatasafe" which got decoded by law enforcement.

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100% spot on and I forgot that angle. This is important. It always starts with "think of the children." That's how we got these fucked up COVID-19 policies.