To get this quashed would be easy. Use a Pegasus-like software and throw some known CP images onto their phone.

After Cook and co have this happened, they'll rethink this program real quick.

The CEOs of the largest corporations in the world have additional human-in-the-loop evaluation steps in the chain before swatting, unlike people like you and I.

This

2021 swatting

You seem to be conflating the two systems. For the CSAM detection this wouldn't do anything at all because you aren't uploading it to iCloud.

For the child iMessage system it would notify the parents, not law enforcement.

It's nothing like swatting

Wait until they start scanning offline photos, because this is designed with the intention to.

> For the CSAM detection this wouldn't do anything at all because you aren't uploading it to iCloud.

The whole point of this change is that they will scan content "before" it hits iCloud. (the verbage says "before" as if there is going to certainly be an intent that it goes to iCloud but that's not a given at all, sounds like Apples marketing speak to "assume the sale" so to say).

CSAM scanning of photos uploaded iCloud photos has already been in place for quite some time.