Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Security Backlash

Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by ragnese on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:24PM (#40611434)

> And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.

No, no. They thought about the privacy and security aspect. They decided that it's better for their bottom line if Windows users don't have privacy from the mother ship. Really, they already decided that way back when Windows Vista first came out and periodically asked Microsoft HQ if you should continue being allowed to use your computer.

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Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by Sharlin on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:22PM (#40612004)

I mean, you can't even install Windows 10 without it telling you several times that unless you opt out (again and again), it's going to send just about anything you do to Microsoft…

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Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by WhackyIdeas on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:10PM (#40614742)

I can see malware secretly enabling Recall and hopping on it as a really good keylogger which they don’t need to code themselves.

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Re:Microsoft Will Switch Off Recall by Default After Securit... by bitwize on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:57PM (#40615156)

That was XP, and that was the beginning of my separation from Microsoft stuff in earnest. The Windows XP background and UI is a source of nostalgia for millennials just like Windows 3.x, old-school Mac, or Amiga would be for people my age... but I feel no nostalgia at all for it because I let that generation of Windows, and most subsequent ones, simply pass me by, fortune having smiled upon me and enabled me to work in Linux almost exclusively since around that time.

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