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One more reason to resist their extend embrace extinguish strategy and not use their tools (vs code etc), this won’t end well and Microsoft will always be Microsoft.
- When a user enable Recall, it should ask to setup a "Recall password" and generate a private public key and use the password to encrypt the private key.
- Use the above public key to encrypt all the data it stores.
- When user wants to search Recall history, ask for the password, decrypt the private key and use the decrypted private key to decrypt the data and show the data to user.
- Show some sort of indicator on taskbar that Recall is running, not a tray icon (which can be hidden), but a proper big red circle kind of thing.
To me this seems like another case of MS top executives telling every team that they have to do something with AI. Typical approach used by many executives and managers - "Here is a new tech, figure out a product to build with it".
I still don't understand how this got this far. Enabling this in any corporate setting would be a compliance nightmare.
At one place I worked when the company replaced my old machine with a new windows 10 system it was configured to send every single keystroke back to Microsoft. There was zero concern over privacy or compliance, just an assumption that MS would never abuse that data for any reason. I did not have their faith and disabled that "feature" then changed a massive number of other policies to try and keep as much data out of Microsoft's hands as I could.
What's funny about this and other "recalls" (pun intended) of "products" from so-called "tech" companies as a result of "feedback", or "backlash" as Wired calls it, is that the companies never asked for such input and AFAIK no one is contacting the companies to give it. AFAICT it is obtained through surveillance. To people born after the internet this might seem normal, but to me it is quite odd. The companies claim…
What's funny about this and other "recalls" (pun intended) of "products" from so-called "tech" companies as a result of "feedback", or "backlash" as Wired calls it, is that the companies never asked for such input and AFAIK no one is contacting the companies to give it. AFAICT it is obtained through surveillance. To people born after the internet this might seem normal, but to me it is quite odd. The companies claim…
In this context, “feedback” means reputation compromising news cycles.
I'm glad Microsoft is making changes, but I wonder how much is out of fear for their reputation and how much is just to try and comfort people and get the news to stop talking about it so that everyone doesn't just disable it as soon as it rolls out.
Heres something I just don't get. Microsoft just got their ass handed to them by the US Government because os (lapses in) security. Extremely more than coincidentally, Satya Nadella told the entire Microsoft org that if anyone had to choose between features and security, to choose security. I'm hearing from Microsoft people that all product roadmaps are deferred for a few months while security features are addressed.…
> And then someone goes and invents Recall
Maybe you should read about the history of Microsoft, especially about its security.
But people forget easily.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently tried to fully rid myself of OneDrive and it took me over 48 hours to accomplish. The only working method I found involved fully enabling OneDrive, signing in, and waiting for a full sync. Only then was I able to tell it to stop syncing and finally remap Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc. The fact that I needed to log in, wait 24 hours for my account to unlock due to inactivity (!!!), and enable sync in…
They are the house of dark patterns. After a certain point anyone paying attention can see it's not accidental. Oops sorry! No. Their goal is your technological enslavement. Mis-features like that don't accidentally just always end up being evil and oops sorry when there is a real backlash. They wanted to see if they could get away with it, like they do. I abandoned MS products in 1998 for good. Win98se pushed me ove…
Maybe a bit off-topic, but I sure wish they'd do this for OneDrive! I installed Windows for personal use for the first time recently (although I use it exclusively at work) and it drove me ABSOLUTELY BONKERS that my home drive was mapping to C:\Users\atribecalledqst\OneDrive. What I hated the most was that the File Explorer just calls the folders in there e.g. "Documents" and "Pictures" without showing the full path.…
You have to reinstall Windows and set up a local account instead of a Microsoft account. Everyone should install Windows with a local account. For Windows 11: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...
Heres something I just don't get. Microsoft just got their ass handed to them by the US Government because os (lapses in) security. Extremely more than coincidentally, Satya Nadella told the entire Microsoft org that if anyone had to choose between features and security, to choose security. I'm hearing from Microsoft people that all product roadmaps are deferred for a few months while security features are addressed.…
Heres something I just don't get. Microsoft just got their ass handed to them by the US Government because os (lapses in) security. Extremely more than coincidentally, Satya Nadella told the entire Microsoft org that if anyone had to choose between features and security, to choose security. I'm hearing from Microsoft people that all product roadmaps are deferred for a few months while security features are addressed.…