| Jaglavak |
22nd May 2024 05:39 PM |
Total Recall
Place your bets, folks! The Evil Empire has come up with yet another way to broadcast your life for fun and profit. Its called Recall for Windows, but it should be called Goldmine for Hackers.
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Microsoft’s buzziest new AI feature is raising concerns that it could potentially be misused in the wrong hands.
This week, the company showed off a new tool called Recall for Windows computers that acts as a personal “time machine,” allowing users to quickly pull up anything that’s ever been on screen, such as documents, images and websites. It’s different from a keyword search; the tool regularly saves screenshots of the user’s screen and stores them directly on the device. It then uses AI to process the data and make it searchable...
...Jen Golbeck – a professor of AI at the University of Maryland who focuses on privacy – said the recall feature could pose a potential “nightmare” if the device falls into the wrong hands.
“Stuff may stay on your device, but that doesn’t mean people can’t get to it,” she said. “You won’t have an option to protect yourself even if you use incognito mode or clear your history because the tool has access to everything that’s been on your screen...What we’ve seen over the last 15 years is every single one of those potential malicious use cases comes to fruition in some way or another,” she said. “People will want to use this cool feature without understanding the privacy risk – that there will be a permanent record of everything you do.”....
...Michela Menting, a senior research director at ABI Research, believes the feature is a “step backwards” for privacy.
“The argument that hackers need physical access to even be able to manipulate Recall is short-sighted at best because there are plenty of highly ingenious ways threat actors could exploit such a valuable tool,” she said. “All it takes is time and effort to find a way.”
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So, how many weeks before this new totally secure private eyes-only feature is hacked? I'm guessing six months, so lets say November 22, 2024. |
