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Microsoft seems unaware how much pr0n and other “objectionable” material its users peruse.
They (and the NSA) just want your data.
To clarify: They don't collect your data because they are perverts. They are required to do so.
"Beaumont says admin access to the system isn’t required to read another user’s Recall database. Another user with an admin account can easily grab any other user’s Recall database and all the Recall screenshots by clicking through a simple UAC prompt." The person quoted in the article says admin access isn't required and to bolster this gives an example of someone with admin access being able to access the recall da…
The research is... kinda bad. Beaumont critzies that Microsoft stores the data... locally in an SQLite database? Because it's "easy to steal with malware" (just like your browser history, etc). Blew up in the media though...
Microsoft seems unaware how much pr0n and other “objectionable” material its users peruse.
Why do you think so ? They (and the NSA) just want your data. To clarify: They don't collect your data because they are perverts. They are required to do so.
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The research is... kinda bad. Beaumont critzies that Microsoft stores the data... locally in an SQLite database? Because it's "easy to steal with malware" (just like your browser history, etc). Blew up in the media though...
What's the difference between stealing some random sqlite database and the history of OCRs of screenshots of anything ypu did on that PC?
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What's the difference between stealing some random sqlite database and the history of OCRs of screenshots of anything ypu did on that PC?
What's the difference between stealing the history of OCRs of screenshots on anything you did versus the ability to steal my tax/financial documents, business trade secrets, private letters, photos and other information commonly stored on a computer which can be taken in the same manner whether it is on Windows, Linux or macOS?
Trust is moot when someone can abuse their position with no consequences. Windows has been the overwhelmingly dominant desktop OS for 30 years and it is unlikely to lose that position any time soon.
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What's the difference between stealing the history of OCRs of screenshots on anything you did versus the ability to steal my tax/financial documents, business trade secrets, private letters, photos and other information commonly stored on a computer which can be taken in the same manner whether it is on Windows, Linux or macOS?
This Recall feature keeps text of emails typed and never sent, of documents viewed and deleted.
I work in a typical MS shop and as usual their evangelism is really strong. Everyone in the admin team is a hardcore Microsoft promoter, everywhere from internally on Yammer and externally on socials. They're probably fishing to get made MVP. But still, I have more self-respect. While they're all eagerly piling on Copilot studio I'm making my own bots with ollama. I don't like having my knowledge and experience locked behind someone else's brand and interests.
I'm very critical and feel they are a mediocre company which mainly floats on being "just good enough to not pass over" because of their marketshare. The old "nobody got fired for buying IBM" thing. I don't think they're actually leaders in anything. They're just big so they're hard to get around. Every third party solution we've replaced with a MS alternative was more capable, more ethical and easier to use. It was always a step back to settle for the MS solution.
Now again with the whole Copilot war they can do nothing wrong in the eyes of my colleagues. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one seeing this.
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This Recall feature keeps text of emails typed and never sent, of documents viewed and deleted.
And that makes the security associated with it any more important than my kept documents how?
It's no wonder collecting this info is a priority. It will be a goldmine for dataminers with the right correlation. Sure right now it's not collected centrally but I'm sure sooner or later there'll be a quick "just click off this tiny T&C update before you continue" crossing our paths.
Also, it means that this confidential info is now in more places than one. It's no longer sufficient to encrypt a file and lay it on a usb stick in the safe.
And it's also there in centralised place ripe for the taking. Not even any need to scan the system to find valuable information.