Total Recall

[Jaglavak]

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.

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.”

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.

[stormie]

Jaysus.

Time for a Unix-variation OS?

[JackieLikesVariety]

fuck microsoft, seriously.

[Diamonds02]

So, if you use TOR for porn because you’re embarrassed about jacking off to women fucking each other in parrot costumes….it would be useless because windows will screenshot that shit and store it deep into its system.

We are about to have an explosion of new Linux users.

[Sputnik]

The best thing about Apple products is that they are not Microsoft products.

[Jaglavak]

:: innocent ::

If you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to worry about.

[running coach]

Originally Posted by Sputnik

The best thing about Apple products is that they are not Microsoft products.

You think they're not frantically working on their own version?

[Pogo]

Password resets that are emailed to you?

[Solfy]

The reason episodes of "Black Mirror" are so chilling is they're so close to reality. And reality gets closer to Black Mirror every day.

[3acres]

Originally Posted by Diamonds02

We are about to have an explosion of new Linux users.

Not unless some maker starts selling turnkey linux pc's at walmart and best buy. People don't want to install their OS themselves any more than they want to put a different engine in their new car themselves.

[C2H5OH]

Originally Posted by stormie

Jaysus.

Time for a Unix-variation OS?

Multiple versions of Linux, FreeBSD, OSX (mac only on that last)

Except for OSX, none have caught on beyond a small niche market, and arguably even OSX is kinda niche, since you can only run it on Apple machines.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by 3acres

Not unless some maker starts selling turnkey linux pc's at walmart and best buy. People don't want to install their OS themselves any more than they want to put a different engine in their new car themselves.

Bob's your uncle.