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This is something you have to specifically enable right? Right?! I’m sick of brain dead execs and product managers. What world do these people live in?
by ok_dad 2y ago
This is something you have to specifically enable right? Right?!
I’m sick of brain dead execs and product managers. What world do these people live in?
- colechristensen 2y ago>What world do these people live in? Getting promoted by other execs based on the visibility of delivered features.
- lstamour 2y agoIt’s enabled by default on a select number of laptops they sell, and no one else has access to it yet. But they plan to roll it out further. I’d personally hoped for some kind of “Secure Enclave” such that only certain processes could be run, but this is about what I would expect of someone shipping a minimum viable product because AI is a hot buzzword. Weirdly, even AI could theoretically solve some of the privacy issues simply by looking for PII and removing them. Extra weirdly, this would have been more secure if they uploaded screenshots to the cloud, because access could be better monitored there and exfiltration limited.
- ocdtrekkie 2y agoIf anything, it's likely they imagine the PII being useful. Imagine being able to ask your computer for your bank account number instead of digging it out of a website or file. Obviously useful... but also obviously exploitable.
- LegitShady 2y agoFirst it's opt in, then it's on by default, then it's mandatory and what do you have to hide anyways? The default progression of this sort of "feature" and business practice.
- frizlab 2y agoAnd in this particular instance it did not even start with opt-in. They went straight to on by default!
- abracadaniel 2y agoThere’s also the classic phase where it’s technically opt-out, but it magically gets reset to default every time Windows updates.
- hansvm 2y agoThere's a phase in between where it's reset every time you leave the settings menu and can't see them resetting it (I forget which privacy policy it was anymore, but that was the straw that kicked me over to Linux for good).
- NekkoDroid 2y ago> This is something you have to specifically enable right? Right?! lol, lmao even. Some might even be so inclined to say rofl. It is actually kind of depressing the state in which Windows is and is going. For me personally the only actual "advantage" Windows has over my homegrown Archlinux install is app/game support. And basically all of the ones that don't work, don't work by design because they don't want the user to own their hardware/software.
- 0x_rs 2y agoRegardless of the new Recall feature, the Windows Timeline already collects vast amounts of data and is enabled by default, and I've seen the database file grow even when disabled. A trove of information for any forensic analysis. https://kacos2000.github.io/WindowsTimeline/WindowsTimeline.pdf https://kacos2000.github.io/WindowsTimeline/WindowsTimeline....
- TheRoque 2y agoFirst it's gonna be an obvious setting, then it's gonna be a setting deep in the "features" of windows, then it's gonna be a register you have to edit, then it's gonna be an obscure powershell script you have to execute, and in the end, it will be a default feature that you have no control on :)
- Zuiii 2y agoDon't forget them requiring an online Microsoft account to change the setting. Don't have internet or can't set up an account? Well, tough luck.