Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October

• Boozilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish they would do a much better job of distinguishing corporate workstation versions of Windows and Home versions of Windows. Put all this MS ecosystem garbage on the workstation version, and make the Home version a stripped down to the essentials OS. Which is what most of us try to do with tools like ShutUp10, anyway.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ironically, in reality it’s the exact opposite. The home version is pumped to the brim with this dogshit, while the Enterprise version is stripped to the bare necessities. They likely know that other corporations have the balls to sue them for all kinds of reasons

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get ads on my workstation. Its fun. I cant remove them without getting permission from the IT department. Meanwhile my home computers have no ads at all.

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i’ll do you one better: all PCs at my job are running win10 LTSC, which was meant for specific use cases like running neon signs and shit

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And even for that cases it’s bloated as fuck.

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• SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How long before there’s a discovery request for all recall data for a time period and companies start screaming about the risks with recall?

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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    companies start screaming about the risks with recall?

    this comment veers pretty close to implying that upper and middle management know a single goddamn thing about tech or cybersecurity

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• GenXLiberal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed - if I were evil, I would use this data to look for long periods of static/unchanging desktop screenshots to look for inactivity and employees lying about being there or away.

  Honestly this is just an arms race. If the above happens (and if I can come up with that use case think about what will come up when someone actually smart thinks about it.)

  The response? I’d make a tool that presses alt-tab every 15 seconds a random number of times - to both keep the computer alive and change the desktop view, maybe move the windows around a bit for variety. A usb rubber ducky would be perfect for this.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. But if big brother really wants, they can detect a weird program running, a weird hardware being on it, or just that someone is tabbing around without actually doing something.

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