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

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    Like clockwork; wait till the outrage dies down, try again in a few months.

    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months 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.

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    4 months ago

    I wonder why they’re so insistent to add it if all the data stays on device?

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      4 months ago

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

      Right?

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      4 months ago

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

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    4 months 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.

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    4 months ago

    Because of course they are. It went so well the first time.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      What they’re doing is likely to work because it follows the pattern of outrage, waiting out the outrage, and doing the thing that caused outrage anyway.

      It’s what they want, and unless something remarkable happens, they’re going to get it. They’re competent at it, fucked up as it is.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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        4 months ago

        They’re fixing the things that people claimed to be outraged about.

        Guess we’ll see whether that outrage was rational or just, well, outrage.

  • lobut@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    that’ll coincide with the date of uninstalling Windows off my last PC!