If you tell something to someone else, assume it’s compromised.
Wow, valid issue.
Spitballing, potentially a secure app could run memory only, blah, blah, blah. Nope, you've given M$ your screen FFS, it's all over. If you care, move elsewhere, tell your friends...
As you point out, codes are an option, but it's not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide.
It can be turned off so it's up to the person you're messaging. Once you send something the person at the other end is in control of what happens to it.
Once you send something the person at the other end is in control of what happens to it.
True, but this is the beauty of trust. I decide to communicate one way or another with someone depending on the level of trust. Them deciding to break that trust is a risk I chose to take. However, I do not choose to communicate with Microsoft, whatsoever. Windows Recall is the most blatant piece of spyware ever; beyond comprehension how this is so normalized.
Then you have to trust the person you are communicating with has turned off windows recall. That has to be the starting position.
Tools will come to block or break windows recall but it will still be based on trust that the recipient is using them. Privacy centred apps like Signal wouldn't want windows screen shotitng every message for example. There are many apps and tools including in the professional sphere that would not want their data leaking via recall so it will come.
Unfortunately it may come late in the professional realm probably after scandals break. Employers using recall data to investigate staff for example - it's bound to happen eventually.
My own organisation, a huge health organisation, has opted in to CoPilot. It's crazy in my view, even if our data is ring fenced in some way. I don't want private patient information being used to train Microsoft shitty tools, or stored on their servers. Regulation and the law is way behind when it comes to this stuff.
I'm in Europe :p
I'm afraid this comment shows a severe underestimation of the gravity of this issue. Windows recall doesn't stop at borders even if it were illegal there.
Don't forget that while they managed the PR better, apple "Intelligence" also has access to damn near everything on your devices.
If it leaves your device, you cannot control it.
If the content CNA be displayed, it can be parsed by recall.
The only way I can see to bypass it is to obtain DRM keys and display your content on a website only if widevine is active, like Netflix does. Surely it can't screenshot DRM protected content, but also this is Microsoft .
Can't control what other people do so you might be out of luck.
It's more about what Microsoft enforces—spyware—than what other people do.
So is there a way for businesses to disable this garbage feature through managed device settings or something? I’m guessing corporate legal departments aren’t going to be too thrilled with this feature.
There's a CSP for disabling it on windows enterprise devices at least. Not sure if there's a way for pro and home machines.
There must be. Recall and info sec is mutually excluding by definition!
Ugh, I didnt think about that😬
Me neither! Microsoft needs to be taken to court over this because it is a serious breach of privacy to not only record the users but even random bystanders as well. Now I am convinced this is just a backdoor for the government hiding in plain sight. Fuck them.
Oh this 100% is the government backdoor that they've been begging for. "If you can innovate your way into it, you can innovate a way out of it."
That was in regards to Apple phones belonging to Boston bombers being encrypted and locked.
It's no surprise that behind closed doors, the government asked these companies to create backdoors for them to spy on people.
To my knowledge, there isn’t. But you can ask the person to turn off recall. I’m going to be running 11 in a VM myself so /me shrugs
The code for Recall is in the code for File Manger. Recall cannot be turned off if you want Windows to load and function.
There's literally an option to turn it off
Is this not accurate (anymore)? https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-windows-recall#section-how-to-uninstall-windows-recall
That's just the off button. But you can't remove it because they tied it to explorer as a depenacy. Off or not, explorer doesn't work with out recall.
Turning it off is a good step 1, but what's stopping some malicious software, such as every windows update, from turning it back on and selling our data for profit.
You can't, at that point you assume your correspondent is compromised. It's not just recall but also malware and credential stealers. Doesn't matter if recall is taking screenshots, if the messaging client itself is pwned via malware then they have full access to as much history as is available.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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