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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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[–] jgrg@mstdn.science 1 points 2 months ago

@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.)