The same has been true of email for years, but less bad. Activists will need to be even more careful in who they trust.
Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks
PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The worst thing about is, even if you switch h to Linux for privacy yourself, you’ll also need your friends to switch as well, otherwise if you message them on their desktop, they’re a liability, as the damn recall will be there too, leaking your data.
It’ll be hell for activists.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 1 week ago
In what sense?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
- if you send plaintext, their email service could spy on them
- once they decrypt, they could accidentally reply with the decryped text, or it could get backed up if they store a copy somewhere
- screen readers could store decrypted email
In general, if you don’t trust the receiver, you shouldn’t send sensitive information. Windows Recall doesn’t change that, if they’re competent, Windows Recall won’t be enabled.
I think this is more an issue for less technical users instead of activists, because activists will be more careful about who they trust than a secretary or something for a powerful individual.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Funnily enough, Signal gas circumvented the issue by marking their chat window as DRM content, making it invisible to Recall.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Lol
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
They used the invasion of privacy to destroy the invasion of privacy?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
They didn’t circumvent the issue - they did what Microsoft tell developers to do in regards to their programs and recall lol.