Specifically the next generation of SGX is pushing ahead, since a number of flaws were identified in the original design.

I'm taking bets on how long before the next generation is completely broken as well. It is only a matter of time, and the timeline is likely short.

The onus is on Intel to provide a solution that is sound. That said, there's no reason to assume that what they're doing is impossible, any more so than assuming that cryptography in general is impossible.

Only having it on expensive chips will probably help as much as anything.

Curious how there is no CSAM scare mongering when it's companies that need private storage of information.

Societally, when some person or org uses a Xeon processor for CSAM distribution, nobody things "man I wish Intel stopped this". However, when it's Apple considering end-to-end encrypted iCloud Photos or iCloud backups, people (read: federal law enforcement) will blame Apple for allowing CSAM to proliferate locked away from law enforcement.

edit: as for why this is bad, federal law enforcement have a lot more pull when seeking change in laws in congress. Maybe Apple would've had to implement a government backdoor into iPhone itself if they didn't pull the CSAM scanning stunt (and I imagine they knew the backlash was inevitable, which allowed them to use that backlash as reason to push back on either scanning or a backdoor).

>However, when it's Apple considering end-to-end encrypted iCloud Photos or iCloud backups

Apple never used the excuse they want to do end to end encryption, did this changed recently? because as far as I know only fanboys used this excuse pulled out of the air. This fanboys always have the most shit excuses like "if Apple let' s you do X what if some child does X while walking and falls in a hole, then Apple will look bad", fanboys really hurt every time their favorite company looks bad in the news see how fast some bad news gets down-voted here on HN(Tesla, MS news too from what I noticed, you start to add a comment and in 1 minute the article is gone from the first page or even flagged)

The original article is here[0], but it seems this article might not be holding its weight[1], so perhaps there never was a plan to encrypt iCloud backups.

0: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

1: https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-fbi-and-iphone-back...

Yes, the End to End Encryption part is just fanboys speculation nothing official from Apple, even after they had a lot of bad PR they did not even slightly hint that they are doing it for E2E.

Google and FB reported a lot more CSAM then Apple so far, so what do Apple fans think

1 Apple users have less CSAM then Google/FB users

2 Apple users use Google for CSAM, maybe those services are better qwuality or for what they use it for

3 Apple never cared about CSAM and did the minimum work possible, and they never care for CSAM now either but for some reason they needed this backdoor scan and report process to always run on devices.

4 some other reason, maybe Apple users are not into this shit, keeping in mind Apple is anti adult software on their devices , some people would avoid their censored devices