Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• peetabix@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  More like malware

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    yup. how do people continue using Winblows :/

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s actually super simple: even though the community is called “Technology”, there’s A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:

      • only available on devices with an NPU.
      • local only, nothing goes out to the Internet (hence the NPU requirement).
      • opt-in - you need to turn it on yourself.

      There’s nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it’s malware is just showing ignorance.

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• jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not a bug, it’s a feature we don’t like 🤣

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, not really, a bug is unintentional. Even calling it a design flaw is a stretch, it’s a feature that isn’t for your benefit.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Bug” also means “listening device.”

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of bugs and features then there’s a contextual implication.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It was wordplay, yes.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, you’re saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a good thing that microsoft is trustworthy and you can believe everything they say. And that malware never misuses resources of the system on which it is installed.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.

      BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that’s the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.

      If you’re afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don’t have to do that, they already have access to everything else.

      If you’re afraid of the feature in anyway, don’t use it.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You trust microsoft implicitly no matter what they do, I get it.

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