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From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca>
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Subject: Re: "Recall is an opt-in experience.... Users can also remove Recall
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 14:16:16 -0500
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On 10/27/2024 11:20 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:
> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote at 02:44 this Monday (GMT):
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Most AI stuff seems to be a solution to no problems.


The Google AI responses are sometimes damn good.  I know it's just 
parsing your question and finding related stuff, but it's well-presented 
and thorough, and much better than digging thru multiple links.