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Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

  • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    25 days ago

    I keep hearing all the rabble rousing about this from a security perspective, but is there not an incognito mode to the Recall capability?

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      24 days ago

      There cant be.

      It literally screenshots what you’re doing every few seconds, and builds a plain text database of any and all text it captures.

      Incognito mode is not having it installed.

      • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        24 days ago

        Hmm that didn’t sound right so I had to look it up. Microsoft says there’s a way to pause the recall snapshot functionality for a set amount of time, like an incognito mode:

        Pause or resume snapshots To pause recall, select the Recall icon in the system tray then Pause until tomorrow.  Snapshots will be paused until they automatically resume at 12:00 AM. When snapshots are paused, the Recall system tray icon has a slash through it so you can easily tell if snapshots are enabled. To manually resume snapshots, select the Recall icon in the system tray and then select Resume snapshots.

        https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c

        I don’t understand why there’s so much FUD around this product…