These illegal photos are not trivial to obtain. Possessing (and here, the printing step necessitates possession) these illegal photos is in and of itself a crime in most relevant jurisdictions.
But OK, let's say that you've found a way to get the photos and you're comfortable with the criminal implications of that. At that point why don't you just hide the printed photos in your coworker's desk? My point is that if you have a disgruntled coworker who's willing to resort to heinous crimes in order to screw you over, there's many different things they could do that are less convoluted.
It takes 1 minutes on TOR to find enough to get anyone thrown in jail don't make it sound harder than it really is. As for photos vs printing taking a photo reports it for you so you're never involved.
An “interesting” part of this is, up until now these photos had little technical exposure. But now that millions of phones can be affected, creating unrelated pictures that purposefully match these hashes becomes a shinny target.
This is untrue. The same photos being used by Apple for this scheme are already in use for CSAM scanning by many major platforms (Google, Facebook, Microsoft).
If someone wanted to generate a false positive image, they could already leverage it on these other platforms.
I'd wager the target size of all iOS devices, with the scanning happening by default right after the photo hits the device, is bigger than the other platforms combined.
Google Photos (+ Google Drive I guess ?) is on by default only on Pixel phone I think, and not by default on Samsung phones. For Facebook you have to post the images, for Microsoft I don't think there is any scanning inside Windows itself and by default, I guess it's on OneDrive ?
Those companies are big, but the majority of pictures still go through iOS first and foremost.
But OK, let's say that you've found a way to get the photos and you're comfortable with the criminal implications of that. At that point why don't you just hide the printed photos in your coworker's desk? My point is that if you have a disgruntled coworker who's willing to resort to heinous crimes in order to screw you over, there's many different things they could do that are less convoluted.