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https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/09/27/update-on-recall-security-and-privacy-architecture/


If someone hacks your system, it's much easier for them to find 
sensitive financial info in your filesystem than to break Recall 
encryption and scour your screenshots that might show it.

But MS, or at least their messaging, was clueless at first and didn't 
seem to understand the visceral reaction people have to an app taking 
and storing screenshots of everything they do.

But why TF did they even create such a controversial app in the first 
place?

I don't get it.  In my decades of using computers I never once thought 
"It sure would be nice to have screenshots of everything I did the last 
2 weeks."  Finding things by reviewing screenshots seems much more 
difficult than looking at a browser history or going to your filesystem 
where you know the documents reside.

This one really seems to be a solution in search of a problem.