Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
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Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#2Even if there's a "disable" button, I don't trust them to actually honor the disable button either.
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#3I trust Microsoft to not send photos/videos of user activity back to home base. Seems like a lot of bandwidth.
What I imagine will happen is the Recall feature will send summaries of user activity back to Microsoft. That way, it's "anonymized" and somehow legal
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#4Even if there's a "disable" button, I don't trust them to actually honor the disable button either.
"Hello, each and every Windows Update actually switches that button from disable to enable. All you have to do is remember to switch it back after every security update." --The future based off Microsofts past behavior.
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#5Even if there's a "disable" button, I don't trust them to actually honor the disable button either.
"Hello, each and every Windows Update actually switches that button from disable to enable. All you have to do is remember to switch it back after every security update." --The future based off Microsofts past behavior.
This is why I left windows recently[0]. When you design an OS that doesn't respect the user's choices, you are no longer in control of the OS. Windows 11 shifted to trying to force people to use Edge. You can't even change the default browser in many cases without some serious work.
And the FTC is going after anyone but Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviors. The desktop world looks bleak for people that depends on Windows.
[0]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-transi...
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#6Microsoft seems unaware how much pr0n and other “objectionable” material its users peruse.
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#7"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 database. I'm confused.
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#8"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...
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#9Related and mentioned within:
Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC
Re: Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
#10Even if there's a "disable" button, I don't trust them to actually honor the disable button either.
"Your privacy is very important for us" when they were pushing me to accept the cookies on the Edge home screen.