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Maybe security oversight happens later in the process. No need to bother with that if the feature doesn't even work.

• haswell 2y ago
  If so, that's a problem. It might explain why this happened, but that doesn't mean it's an acceptable practice, especially after recently claiming that security is a primary focus for all project teams. Security requirements often completely change the architecture of a product. Things can be built without security that are significantly more challenging to accomplish when strict data security requirements are in place. Architectures that assume no security often completely break down when security is tacked on top. If this is a matter of a product not yet getting "security added", that again raises major concerns about how Microsoft is building products.
  • wvenable 2y ago
    It doesn't sound like they're going to have significant problems adding more security to this product. For advanced as it sounds, it's not that complicated of a technology. It's just plugging together a bunch of existing technologies. I could probably MVP this app in a week myself given what is available. I think that exploratory development is, in general, a good thing. Bogging down all development with middle-management procedures might certainly have caught this early. But that doesn't necessarily make that a better way to build products. The scary thing about Recall isn't actually Recall itself. It's that AI makes this kind of product possible and really easy. I'm sure we're going to see implementations of this idea everywhere and not just on PCs. Imagine AIs watching security cameras.