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Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Also scared how companies might use it to control their employees

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Most people could escape this kind of shit by just switching to linux (which really isn't hard), but in the workplace you don't typically get to choose the OS you use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a former computer repair tech who dealt with a lot of average computer users, I'm sorry to tell you that most people cannot switch to Linux. Most people can't even figure out how to use the super basic Windows features.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There has been software like this for decades that could run invisibly, except it was intended for nefarious purposes. Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah though in some countries employees were still protected from usage of such software or the usage had to be confirmed and agreed. This seems like it could be used as a loophole

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No, not really. If the OS starts using the N-word in its UI, no sane company will say "oh well, we can only do nothing but accept that that's what MS did teehee!"

They'd better disable that shit, or I'll just work elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Might? Heh. Cute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don’t think companies are excited about this as the fediverse thinks. Recall means that now everything done on a computer is subject to their retention policies and subject to discovery in a lawsuit

I don’t know many companies that are willing to increase their risk that much just to control their employees

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Right now I'm terrified that we will have to add local storage to handle this garbage. We use small disks intentionally to push our users to use the network storage, which is backed up. Instead of local storage which is not. I don't need microsoft keylogging and screencapping my tiny disks to death.