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A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.
More like malware
yup. how do people continue using Winblows :/
It's actually super simple: even though the community is called "Technology", there's A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:
There's nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it's malware is just showing ignorance.
~~Well, not really, a bug is unintentional. Even calling it a design flaw is a stretch, it's a feature that isn't for your benefit.~~
"Bug" also means "listening device."
If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.
It was wordplay, yes.
I retract.
So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?
Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.
If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.
It's a good thing that microsoft is trustworthy and you can believe everything they say. And that malware never misuses resources of the system on which it is installed.
Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.
BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that's the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.
If you're afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don't have to do that, they already have access to everything else.
If you're afraid of the feature in anyway, don't use it.
You trust microsoft implicitly no matter what they do, I get it.
I don't. I read tech specs and security analyses. You just stick your head in the sand whenever someone says "Microsoft", though. It's silly.
I don't trust them and they have given me sufficient reason over the course of decades not to.
So you still think it's 1990. Got it. Well, times have changed. We have better oversight. The EU has GDPR, user data is better protected. If they tried to pull off a "heist" and suddenly start grabbing these screenshots from users, the fine from EU would be historical.
Times may have. Microsoft has not.