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Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled (mastodon.social)
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Remember Microsoft's Recall? The first implementation was never released and was met with strong criticism from privacy advocates and the infosec/security community. Guess what? Microsoft has doubled down, and its controversial Recall scraper is finally entering the public preview stage. If you care about privacy, please think twice before using this on your AI-enabled PCs (Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs) https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/22/previewing-recall-with-click-to-do-on-copilot-pcs-with-windows-insiders-in-the-dev-channel/

#privacy #infosec #security #windows11 #DoNotWant

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[–] nixCraft@mastodon.social 1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Repeat after me: Snapdragon-based PCs (or laptops) are only safe with Linux or BSD operating systems. They are unsafe with Windows 11 and its Recall feature, even for gaming or other purposes.

[–] noahm@chaos.social 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social With that said, I suspect they make pretty great Linux machines.

[–] pino@social.cologne 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Why? And what does 'unsafe' mean in the context of gaming?

[–] evilworld@mastodon.uno 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social why are they unsafe?

[–] Methylcobalamin@mastodon.social 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Does Recall require special hardware that Snapdragon brand computers have?

[–] laxsill@social.spejset.org 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social this made me switch to a Linux system

[–] el_oscuro@mastodon.social 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I have a sweet system76 rig which I play starfield while running an Oracle database

[–] dgar@aus.social 1 points 3 months ago

@nixCraft@mastodon.social how unsafe?