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Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like even if it was open-source, it would still be too big of a target for malware and data exfiltration to ever be justified for most people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a national security risk https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/06/05/totalrecall-windows-recall-abuse/)

"During testing this with an off the shelf infostealer, I used Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — which detected the off the shelve infostealer — but by the time the automated remediation kicked in (which took over ten minutes) my Recall data was already long gone.”