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Windows Recall feels like having £100million worth of gold in your roofspace and telling everybody about it. Sooner or later, somebody is going to figure out h
by jmkni 2y ago
Windows Recall feels like having £100million worth of gold in your roofspace and telling everybody about it.
Sooner or later, somebody is going to figure out how to steal it.
Also, it just struck me, it used to be normal to install anti-virus on Windows, because it didn't have it's own one. Anti-virus would find software like this (spyware) and block it from running.
Then, Microsoft introduced their own, built in, anti-virus, and it was really good, so we basically stopped installing our own.
Now they have added literal spyware right into their OS, that their anti-virus will be totally cool with.
I've always liked and defended MS, but I dunno anymore...
- LordKeren 2y agoI mean, when you get down to it, if you do not trust the maker of your OS, you’re kind of already in a really bad spot. If you don’t trust Microsoft/Windows, you need to not be using it. I’m not sure this feature changes any real facts about this, only the optics
- Kye 2y agoWindows is an amalgam of interests and capabilities within Microsoft. I trust different parts different ways because different motivations drive them. I think it's reasonable to assume this is well-intentioned but not trust that they've given enough thought to the threat models surrounding it. It's also reasonable to assume the AV team will add an exception to it with all the best intentions. No malice or evil is needed, just good but misguided intentions.