Combined with the unpatched remote-root-via-phone-number disclosed in the Pegasus leak this boils down to a single-click "destroy this person's life" tool.
Honestly I'd rather get shot dead by a SWAT team than implicated for something as atrocious as what this tool is looking for. I imagine many people with a family would feel the same way.
It's an abomination that will destroy innocent people. The engineers behind this no doubt think it's fool-proof because they believe they're leagues smarter than any of those pesky naysayers ("hey, we're Apple").
If we've learned anything about Apple this year (as if we needed the reminder) is that their software is nowhere close to as flawless as they seem to think it is.
> If you assume that cops will just arrest people without doing any further research... Then yeah.
Like when they arrested & charged someone for a poor facial recognition match that never had a hope of passing human review? [0] Just glancing at the original photo would have stopped that. Or checking his rock-solid alibi. Neither of those things happened.
Oh, the police will get a search warrant, and find exactly what they were told would be on your device. The police aren't in the business of discovering your innocence. It's then up to you and your lawyer to prove you didn't put it on your device. Meanwhile your life will fall apart as you get fired, your wife divorces you, you lose all custody of your kids, etc.
