Microsoft wants you to trust them with their AI-powered Recall feature.
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It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 15:50:38 JST It's FOSS -
Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 15:58:35 JST Nazo @itsfoss Thing is, even if you 100% trust MS with your personal data, the chief issue here is that it's a freaking huge attack vector. And I don't just mean obvious stuff like downloading "thisisnotavirusyoucantrustme.exe" and running it. I mean potentially exploits in browsers or etc could open a person up to attack. It's SCARY easy to access the data it records... Even assuming they harden it from how it was in early samples, it's still fundamentally insecure at its entire basis.
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LuckyStoat (luckystoat@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 19:34:41 JST LuckyStoat @itsfoss
It's actually quite shocking how much tinkering and modding windows 11 needs to cut out all the "features" Microsoft keeps adding, like trying to bypass the default browser, polluting the start menu, etc. Suuure I trust them... -
sarcastictoast (sarcastictoast@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 20:39:15 JST sarcastictoast @itsfoss I double booted for years. Then I got tired of playing detective after every Windows Update and ditched dual booting. Not once did I look back. Windows was the OS until Windows 7. Since Windows 10, it's been a stellar ad platform with app running as a bonus. Windows 11? Pure adware, but now it graces even fewer PCs, and running apps is practically an afterthought. Either you spend your time turning off telemetry or just don't care about privacy at all.
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It's FOSS (itsfoss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 21:11:43 JST It's FOSS @nazokiyoubinbou Wait until you hear that Recall data is stored in plain text. ☠️
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Tariq (rzeta0@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 23:12:56 JST Tariq It is very revealing that this was designed to be in plain text intentionally.
It doesn't get past the many design reviews by accident.
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