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A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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Oh no who would have guessed that screenshoting and saving them unencrypted in an unprotected area in where confidential screenshots with passwords can be grabbed by any script kiddie.
Even if we ignore the security issues (and we shouldn't) why the hell would I want my computer taking screenshots, writing that to disk and running OCR on the image, writing results to a database and creating correlations EVERY FEW SECONDS! That's a huge amount of bloat. I want my computer to be quick and responsive.
It’s not like people deserve any sense of privacy, their passwords should be public knowledge.
If you have done nothing wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide (said every authoritarian asshat ever)
Correction: they are encrypted. Not well, but cut them some slack, it's a small startup.
No they arent. They are obfuscated at best. The images are just saved without .jpg extension, and slapping one behind is enough
It's encrypted, but at the same level as everything else the user has access to. So, if your computer is stolen and they can't log in, they can't access it.
Basically, encrypted, just like any other user file.
I think you forgot to mention if the hard drive is encrypted than your statement is true ( in the case for example bitlocker...) but if thats not the case then anyone can just force permissions for that drive and read and write anything.
Bitlokcer would be default active on new windows 11 devices if they all had tpm 2.0 chips ( most of the windows 10 users dont have that featzre ) so bitlocker is out of that case.
The drive is encrypted on W11, if you tamper with the install to allow non TPM requirement then I don't think you can blame anybody if there are consequences. You can install a random exe from the internet, give it admin rights too, that's also on you.
This is a shit show already, no need to make things up to make it worse really.
Still tpm 2.0 should never be required in the first place. But yeah windows is already a shitshow
Please, give them some credit where it's due and don't be so hard on them. You'd have to be technically sound and computer experts to have that kind of foresight!