the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on
I feel for the hundreds of engineers at Microsoft who have been yelling about these security issues since day one, but cannot say “I told you so” because they’d get fired.
I survived a similar incident, telling our CEO at the time “you know our product can’t do that, right?” I had to show my receipts, present usability studies, and faced incredible pressure, but 2 CEOs later, I’m still here… :)
Document everything. Keep good notes. You never know when it will be useful.
Go easy on them, they’re only a 3 trillion dollar company. It’s hard for them to get the resources to build well thought out and secure software.
Pathetic, so glad I’ve been on Linux for years. I don’t miss Micro$oft one bit.
Right? Before they even officially rolled it out, there are already python scripts on github that can extract your entire recall database. They need to just stop.
Wild for sure. It’s pretty clear that M$ isn’t interested in making their OS anything more than a portal for their cloud products.
The overall percentage of revenue that Windows produces for them directly has been steadily shrinking for years while their Azure and cloud services/licensing has grown dramatically.
I guess it makes sense from that perspective. Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer my OS to be a platform for me to compute locally on and use as I see fit. Not be a bloated ad-ridden portal to a walled garden of proprietary web software.
Windows has gotten so bad in the last year or so, that I’ve actually started telling people, “Try Linux, but if that doesn’t work for you, just go with Apple.”
Both are scummy, evil mega corps that try to lock you into their platform forever. But at least with Apple, the cage is 24K gold with a little cushion, and you’re fed avocado toast & kombucha.
Windows is a rusty, filthy prison cell where the guards randomly come in to rough you up and you’re fed a steady diet of stale bread heels and gruel.
Bullshit.
This whole endeavour is looking like a careful plan to implement a smaller, slightly less horrible idea in Win11, and then creep forward from there.
Remember the model to move the goal line, folks:
- Overreach
- Capitulate publicly and fall back to your true target
- Repeat
Best of all, these large steps can be supplemented by nudging things forward with ‘adjusttments.’
They’ll probably come to the “logical conclusion” that storing the data locally on the machine poses “too much risk” and just move the storage to their servers “for your safety”…
Too fucking late. I’ve already installed Bluefin on two machines and Bazzite on my gaming machine. I’m not going back.
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I’m pretty sure the main picture on the article is what the revised opt in/out message looks like. Previously it was opt-out with just a message describing the feature with a check box to have it open Settings when you were finished with the out of box experience so that you can look at the options later.
Edit: Fixed mention of opt-in to opt-out, thanks tal.
That’s how this works, isn’t it? Nobody reads past the headline. Everybody feels about it super strongly, just not strongly enough to actually read about it.
This might not be Reddit, but the Reddit behavior is still here.
Meatbags gonna meatbag.
I can never again log into my email or other private account on someone else’s computer.
I mean, it could always have been compromised and had some kind of keylogger or something installed.
But with Windows 11, you are sure it’s compromised.
That’s the Microsoft™️ Guarantee!
To be fair the possibility of compromise was enough not to do it. Being sure of compromise doesn’t change that math all that much.
Yes, but now it definitely does
Not definitely, recall will be opt-in and only available on arm computers with a very specific ARM CPU
The fact that it took people not involved with Microsoft to point out and initiate internal change should be everything anyone needs to know.
You’re right, nobody should ever rely on external feedback for anything. 🙄
Not storing this shit unencrypted was pretty fucking obvious dude.
Pretty straightforward systemic failure – Dev team, I would guess, assumed full disk encryption would cover it, and nobody checked the assumptions. Or to rephrase: it was fucking obviously encrypted dude.
Why would anyone opt in to this? What is the point of it?
So that you can find that one porn video you watched six months ago that really got you off but you don’t remember how you found it.
they needed researchers to tell them that?
It’s PR bullshit to give an excuse for backtracking basically
