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  • In December, an investigation by Tom's Hardware found that Recall frequently captured sensitive information in its screenshots, including credit card numbers and Social Security numbers — even though its "filter sensitive information" setting was supposed to prevent that from happening.
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[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 116 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

woah, what, i can't believe it

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 28 points 11 hours ago
[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 71 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

They say you can disable Recall by keep pornhub videos running in foreground.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 92 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 45 points 11 hours ago

In 1998, who could have predicted that in 2025, users would be the lords of porn pop-ups?

Forcing the Eye of Microsoft to gaze my mommy milker daddy dwarf bangers is truly the quintessential example of that which is nameless in the Tao.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 8 points 11 hours ago
[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 9 hours ago

Have Frozen running in the foreground. I'm half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.

Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 61 points 10 hours ago

Well at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 59 points 11 hours ago
[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 46 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Just a tip: if you must use consumer editions of Windows regularly, consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.

The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.

The most popular playbooks strip out AI components and services (there are many more than just Recall) but also disable all telemetry and cloud-based features, replace MS bloatware with preferred OSS, curtail a truckload of annoying Windows behaviors, setup more sensible group policies than the defaults, and so forth.

I have a few custom playbooks for recurring use cases so that, when one presents, I can spin up an instance quickly without the usual hassle and risk.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 10 points 8 hours ago

This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I'm not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

[–] JTheFox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

This is really interesting! I’ve usually installed Winaero Tweaker back when I still used Windows, if I knew this existed I probably would’ve gone with this instead. Having access to “playbooks” would be quite handy.

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 hour ago

consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.

The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.

I know what most of these words mean individually

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee -2 points 6 hours ago

/give lemmy_gold

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org -3 points 5 hours ago

You for sure feels so good being this helpful. But TIN really don't understand SHT if you use so many Technical terms(TT)

But there's a solution in brackets I just presented, that's commonly accepted in academia if you still want to use TT like that

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 46 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

How is this possibly going to be tolerated in business environments?

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They pay more for it not being switched on... Or it doesn't call out to home

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I would guess my company absolutely wants it, but wants the I fo sent only to them.

In fact if they didn't already have something like this installed on our PCs I'd be floored.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

My company is still on Windows 10 LT or whatever.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

So, pay more it is.

[–] Broken_Washer@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 6 hours ago

This is top tier comedy: Microsoft won the PC war to be benevolent and give it to Linux. How kind of them to shoot themselves in the foot for the good of mankind.

[–] grapple1298@lemy.lol 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

We already know this. It's not just Microsoft; Google, Meta, and other big tech companies are also involved in similar practices.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] grapple1298@lemy.lol 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Do you have a source?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

to vast majority of people this is unthinkable. They will also likely just not even notice news like this because they dont pay attention to such things and likely dont even care about their personal info until something bad happens to them because of that.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 hours ago

Stealing this info and posting it publicly is an important way to fight back. Once prole hear their credit card is being defrauded because of recall it will be untenable for it to stay

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Moral blackmail and shaming will be the new industries of the future!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Makes sense why they want this technology so much, one thing has really been achieved - in year 2005 you couldn't make a program that would be a keylogger and a useful thing all in one, so you had to make a keylogger somehow detect those rare events one can risk it running, or something like that. You couldn't instruct it in English "send me his private messages on sites like Facebook", you had to be specific and solve problems. Now you can. And these "AI"'s are usually one program with generic purpose. To stuff everything together with kinda useful things.

[–] Hastur@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

everywhere is copying your private messages. Google, facebook, microsoft, reddit, your phone texts, anything you've ever posted anywhere. This isn't news

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] uncouthterran@reddthat.com 2 points 10 minutes ago

So we should be okay with it? What's your point?