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Have U checked your phone photos? Ep 3454 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary
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  Speaker 1: McCants here on episode 3454. Did you hear relative to
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  Speaker 1: cyber news? They laid it out that Claude finds Android phone.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, since we're talking about phones, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you take a moment, take a look at yours, see
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  Speaker 1: what you have. All right, now, you really should already know,
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  Speaker 1: but since you don't, since you're going to find out,
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  Speaker 1: it's an Android, or is it an iPhone, or is
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  Speaker 1: it one of those other ones that's come out? Allegedly
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  Speaker 1: took thousands of secret photos. Yes, your phone. AI allegedly
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  Speaker 1: finds 145,000 deleted photos and 14,000 hidden images. Claude uncovered
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  Speaker 1: thousands of supposedly, supposedly now, deleted photos and hidden facial
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  Speaker 1: images on smartphones. The files spanned approximately 15 months and
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  Speaker 1: included time stamps and location information. Then I saw a
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  Speaker 1: file created two seconds ago. Still looking at the folder,
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  Speaker 1: the phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.
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  Speaker 1: Kuhler explained from CyberNews. A series of posts by an
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  Speaker 1: ex-user going by the handle Kuhler alleges that Anthropix Claude
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  Speaker 1: uncovered thousands of image files secretly stored on their device
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  Speaker 1: that were missing from the phone's regular photo library. Kuhler
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  Speaker 1: said they connected their phone to a laptop, created a backup,
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  Speaker 1: and instructed Claude code To search for front camera images
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  Speaker 1: outside the gallery and recently deleted folders, the results show
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  Speaker 1: that the Android phone contained 14,219 front camera and infrared
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  Speaker 1: images associated with facial unlocking. According to the claims, the
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  Speaker 1: AI2 found files in the directory data system user's zero
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  Speaker 1: face unlock cache, as well as in another location associated
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  Speaker 1: with Google Play services. Turned off diagnostics to revoke camera
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  Speaker 1: access from everything that doesn't need it. Cleared the cache,
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  Speaker 1: but how many of these frames already went somewhere else?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Kula said. The alleged findings contradict Google's
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  Speaker 1: official positions. When you use Face Unlock, face images are
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  Speaker 1: used to update your face model so that over time,
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  Speaker 1: your device can recognize you in more scenarios. Google states
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  Speaker 1: on its support website, the face images used to create
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  Speaker 1: your face model aren't stored, but the face model is
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  Speaker 1: stored securely on your device and never leaves the device.
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  Speaker 1: All processing occurs securely on your device. And another post
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  Speaker 1: cooler states that Claude found an iPhone backup containing more
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  Speaker 1: than 145,000 images and videos deleted over several years. Say what?
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  Speaker 1: The files included photographs and screenshots dating back to 2021.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know it's 2026. Headed toward 2027. some of
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  Speaker 1: which the user said had been deleted immediately after being taken.
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  Speaker 1: Among the stored images were a passport photograph prepared for
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  Speaker 1: a visa application, screenshots of a banking app displaying account numbers,
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  Speaker 1: a photograph of an identity document and credit card and
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  Speaker 1: cryptocurrency seed phrase. Three years of deleted photos and videos
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  Speaker 1: still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with file
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  Speaker 1: access can read them, Kuhler said. According to the post,
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  Speaker 1: the files appeared in a directory identified as photo data thumbnails,
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  Speaker 1: rather than in the normal photo library or recently deleted album.
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  Speaker 1: Apple's documentation confirms that Spotlight maintains a local search index
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  Speaker 1: for information stored on a device, including photos and other contents.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mention the deleted photos. However, users have
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly reported this issue on Apple's own support forums, describing
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  Speaker 1: deleted selfies are reappearing as thumbnails under Photos, Places, View,
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  Speaker 1: and Deleted. Messages, images surfacing in Spotlight search results long
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  Speaker 1: after being removed. A modified device, So, the CyberNews researchers
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  Speaker 1: stated that an ordinary Android phone would not allow a
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  Speaker 1: user to access the protected system folders described in the
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  Speaker 1: post without the device being significantly modified. The researchers said
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  Speaker 1: that the device could have been bought second-hand or come
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  Speaker 1: from a suspicious manufacturer that had made unusual changes to
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  Speaker 1: its operating system. If it was just a bug, non-system
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  Speaker 1: apps couldn't access these files. The researchers explained, meaning the
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  Speaker 1: discovery would not necessarily translate into a wider privacy risk.
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  Speaker 1: Android security documentation confirms that applications are normally sandboxed, meaning
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  Speaker 1: the device would have to be deliberately modified to capture data.
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  Speaker 1: and export the images. And while the scenario of a
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  Speaker 1: phone capturing and storing these images is technically possible, it
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  Speaker 1: presents practical challenges. Storing over 14,000 additional photos on the
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  Speaker 1: device would consume, as you would imagine, a significant portion
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  Speaker 1: of its storage capacity. Additionally, the video provided by the
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  Speaker 1: ex-user shows a system scan but does not explicitly show
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  Speaker 1: a scan for photos on the phone. Consequently, the validity
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  Speaker 1: of the claims remains unverified. Did you hear? I know
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  Speaker 1: you did. And I know you got your phones all out.
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  Speaker 1: You're just looking exactly in the areas that's been mentioned
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  Speaker 1: on today's program.