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Actually this makes sense. Already since recent iOS versions have started popping up an alert to grant access to local network resources per app, I've noticed this popping up on several apps that have no business mapping and fingerprinting my LAN. Including the Facebook app.

It's weird how a company can be so internally disconnected. This entitlement is a good privacy-preserving hurdle to prevent scummy apps from interfering with your local network and fingerprinting you. On the other hand, the on-device scanning of nudes in imessage and csam in iphoto is a total snitchware swatting-as-a-service piece of software which only serves to incriminate and harass the owner of the device. Such a shame.

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