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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:33:35 JST nixCraft 🐧

   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

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:36:54 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft There was never a better time for the general public to start using #Linux!

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:38:00 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     Recall takes a screenshot of a user's desktop every few seconds and then uses on-device AI models to allow a user to retrieve items and information that had previously been on their screen. This caused controversy, with experts warning that the feature could be a "disaster" for security and privacy. Yet, it is now rolling out. I guess there will be no hack or bugs that will leak this info on screen. Right? LOL.

   • Trantion (trantion@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:40:16 JST Trantion

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     @nixCraft Wait, you have a choice about using it? At least that's an improvement I guess. I figured the best thing for now was to tell everyone not to buy a Copilot+ PC

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:40:16 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Trantion

     @trantion It gets enabled every update tho and MS hope that you will forget about it ;) LOL

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:43:58 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     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.

   • 𝔾𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕣 🏳️‍🌈 (gnarlybear@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:53:32 JST 𝔾𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕣 🏳️‍🌈

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     @nixCraft I honestly knew that they were not going to back down from this

   • Jason 👀 #Fyre23 (winnt4@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 22:06:02 JST Jason 👀 #Fyre23

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     @nixCraft Honestly, we've needed a tool like this for ages now, it's not like anyone's web browser has a "history" tab of some sort... oh, wait

   • Johannes Berlin Goth (ratel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 22:22:00 JST Johannes Berlin Goth

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     • Trantion

     @nixCraft @trantion yes that's the trick. If it can do something dangerous, it IS dangerous, even if disabled or carefully tweaked. My second point is: everytime we tolerate a new feature, we allow it to become something ordinary. It's not a problem if something simply useless becomes the norm. It is a problem if it's not just useless but dangerous. That's what happened with food delivery.

   • Erklärbär (erklaerbaer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 22:33:33 JST Erklärbär

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     @nixCraft when MS mentioned proudly it will be as safe as windows, I knew what to expect

   • Erklärbär (erklaerbaer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 22:34:48 JST Erklärbär

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     @nixCraft there will be no opt-out because it will be opt-in.
     In companies, employers can only deactivate it for their employees but not activate it remotely.
     There appears to be an option to delete it entirely.
     And access to the stored data is only granted using Hello.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 22:59:53 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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

   • Erklärbär (erklaerbaer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 23:11:30 JST Erklärbär

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     @nixCraft Remember: This is the company who stores your email passwords from outlook in their cloud unencrypted. Not only from ms accounts but also your gmail, gmx, hotmail, etc.

   • javalps (javalps@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 02:17:04 JST javalps

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     @nixCraft Yea ! I switched to #Fedora #Linux. What the hell is even #Microsoft ?

   • El oscuro (el_oscuro@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 11:31:39 JST El oscuro

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