Doesn't Microsoft have a long history (and present) where they just enable privacy invasive "features" after a windows update even though the user has disabled or removed the "feature"?
Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
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Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#22Looking forward to the update that accidentally re-enables it.
This. I won't be surprised at all if i' silently enabled in a future update that has nothing to do with it.
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#23What exactly is a good usecase for Copilot Pro (I'm assuming Recall will be powered by that in some form)? I'm on the free trial and I'm not finding it to be any more useful than the free version, and pretty similar to ChatGPT.
It can't really do anything.
Can someone smarter than I chime in on this?
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#24Lawyers, law enforcement, and three letter agencies everywhere are going to be extremely disappointed by this development.
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Local accounts are almost impossible to set up for the normal user in win11
It is pretty easy now if you use Rufus to create your installation usb. It will prompt you (and select by default) to disable the need for an online account. I installed the Pro version and then just said I was setting it up for work or school, chose domain and then I set it up just fine as a local account. I don't know for sure how much of this is rufas or the pro version. But I just installed Windows 11 within the…
> normal user
> use Rufus to create your installation usb
Pick one. "Normal" users don't use specialized software to create installation media. They boot the laptop with the OS already installed and go on from there.
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Local accounts are almost impossible to set up for the normal user in win11
It is pretty easy now if you use Rufus to create your installation usb. It will prompt you (and select by default) to disable the need for an online account. I installed the Pro version and then just said I was setting it up for work or school, chose domain and then I set it up just fine as a local account. I don't know for sure how much of this is rufas or the pro version. But I just installed Windows 11 within the…
> if you use Rufus to create your installation usb.
You've already scared away all the normal users
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#27I still don't understand how this got this far. Enabling this in any corporate setting would be a compliance nightmare.
Corporate is never on the bleeding edge of Windows feature updates. They bring security updates first, but feature updates are at least one generation behind, maybe more waiting for Microsoft to fix bugs and doing their own regression testing, plus they get to choose wich features employees receive or are enabled by default via group policy. In other worlds, recall was never making it into any corporation anyway.
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#28Will have to wait and see if the extra security measures actually improve anything or not. However regarding it being opt out… what would prevent a virus from just enabling it on a bunch of machines silently. Sure it would be caught but the damage done and most won’t be bothered to go in and disable it after. Or Microsoft just decides they need to really market the hell out of AI and it gets turned on my default anyw…
What would prevent a virus from directly stealing the data it wants without going through this feature?
Re: Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
#29Will have to wait and see if the extra security measures actually improve anything or not. However regarding it being opt out… what would prevent a virus from just enabling it on a bunch of machines silently. Sure it would be caught but the damage done and most won’t be bothered to go in and disable it after. Or Microsoft just decides they need to really market the hell out of AI and it gets turned on my default anyw…
> what would prevent a virus from just enabling it
If that occurs, the malware won't have access to months or years of data to sift through.
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