I love that this is the (correct) response here. /r/Apple is full of morons that read the press release and honestly believe making this system scan the whole file system is impossible.
The difference between open and closed source is not lost to anyone on this site. There is a grand canyon sized gap between 'could already exist and you have no clue' and 'we have built and are deploying this system'.
The only change necessary to scan other files is changing a path and that's configuration that could even be silently done per-device.