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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.
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Recall takes a screenshot of a user's desktop every few seconds and then uses on-device AI models to allow a user to retrieve items and information that had previously been on their screen. This caused controversy, with experts warning that the feature could be a "disaster" for security and privacy. Yet, it is now rolling out. I guess there will be no hack or bugs that will leak this info on screen. Right? LOL.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social there will be no opt-out because it will be opt-in.
In companies, employers can only deactivate it for their employees but not activate it remotely.
There appears to be an option to delete it entirely.
And access to the stored data is only granted using Hello.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social when MS mentioned proudly it will be as safe as windows, I knew what to expect
@nixCraft@mastodon.social can't it be disabled though? Like opt out? I wouldn't want it sifting through my files. Well, not so much of an issue for me, on a Mac right now, main computers are Linux but for work I do have a Windows machine so I guess its works problem, not mine.
@nixCraft@mastodon.social Honestly, we've needed a tool like this for ages now, it's not like anyone's web browser has a "history" tab of some sort... oh, wait
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I find it really worrying that this breaks the assumption that there is no security risk showing sensitive information onscreen to a fully authorized user.
(Plus the computational inefficiency of taking screenshots and turning them back into text.)