Submitted 21 hours ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://adguard.com/en/blog/microsoft-recall-privacy-threat-adguard.html
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.
Funnily enough, Signal gas circumvented the issue by marking their chat window as DRM content, making it invisible to Recall.
Lol
The same has been true of email for years, but less bad. Activists will need to be even more careful in who they trust.
Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.
It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.
One could argue that it’s a feature that could be done on-client without sending to a server. Or with its server component doing nothing more than syncing with E2E encryption.
I have zero interest in Recall, but I thought it was already done on-device? IIRC it always was that way, which is why it’s only available on new computers containing dedicated “neural coprocessors” I believe was the term.
Now given that it’s closed source, you have to trust that they aren’t silently sending data back to themselves - which is where my problem lies, I don’t trust them in the slightest.
I’ve disabled windows update completely so I can pick and manually dl updates. Never going to put that recall shit on my pc.
How’d you do that? I’ve made registry tweaks, group policy tweaks, etc and my windows machine still eventually hits a limit where it forces updates around the 12 week mark. Granted it’s still longer than before, it isn’t completely disabled.
It was a combination of things between policies and taking over folder and file permissions. I can look up the specifics I used if you are looking to replicate it. It’s a bitch to undo unless you write down everything you change.
At that point it’s easier to install Linux.
around the 12 week mark.
Not all computers need to tell time, just uninstall clock.exe.
Yes.
Worth it.
Honestly it’s what drove me over the edge. I’m on endeavorOS and it has been great honestly. Would recommend 👍🏻
Part of why i knew so-called “digital rights management” was fucking bullshit was because very little software ever came out that empowered me to manage MY OWN rights in the digital space.
I need there to be FOSS applications that allow me to root-level BLOCK applications from perceiving what I’m doing, to just fucking SANDBOX ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING BY DEFAULT and let me whitelist what specific things are allowed to directly access the hardware.
Sadly I am not as tech savvy as I used to think I was. I might’ve been technologically clever twenty years ago but I hadn’t managed to keep up… I think what I’ve described might be referred to as a “hypervisor”? And I’m told it’s an overbearing, clumsy, heavy-handed overkill measure that would be difficult to implement and make everything a pain in the ass to do. So … shit, man, I dunno… i’m just tried of my hardware being bossed around by people I didn’t authorize.
A “hypervisor” is more applicable to servers than anything else, but I agree with you on everything else. That first sentence, man… Big companies get DRM for things they produce, so where’s my DRM, y’know?
Fucking maddening.
Maybe it’s time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.
Qubes OS ?
For windows users
To the surprise of nobody… 😆
No shit.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Of course it is. It’s invasive by design. The “recent tweaks” were because of backlash, but now that’s died down
umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
on purpose. they announce something absurd, so people get mad, and they step down to something they wanted anyway (and even pass the impression they are listening to their users opinions)