Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures.

    • @[email protected]
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      827 days ago

      I mean, I don’t think they ever said “you’re all right, we’ll never do anything like this again and retire the entire idea”.

      They said they were reassessing the security concerns. Which they did, and are trying again with slightly different methodology.

      I’m not telling you to like the feature idea, but you’re acting as if Microsoft is trying to hoodwink people in this specific case, when they are actually just doing what they said they were going to do.

    • ArchRecord
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      2227 days ago

      Surely they would never add even more telemetry that reports back nearly all of your important online activity to Microsoft.

      Right?

    • patrick
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      126 days ago

      Because it actually seems useful for a lot of people? I’d actually want to run this, but I don’t use Windows.

  • ArchRecord
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    2627 days ago

    At least they seem to have addressed some of the security implications:

    The database will be encrypted at rest and will require authentication (and periodic reauthentication)

    The feature will also be off by default

    But of course, nothing on the front of whether or not Microsoft will collect data on you using it. We can trust them there, I’m sure.

  • Nightwatch Admin
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    1627 days ago

    Are they mentally or ethically incontinent? Stupid and/or evil is leaking out from everywhere.