You have been warned. We’re still doing it, but at least we did warn you. The fuckery of MicroShit knows no bounds.
Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
Submitted 4 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
ProjectPatatoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks for reminding me to block this feature at work.
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Um … no thanks.
87Six@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Where are the techbros that warned me of malware since W10 is EOL? Do you like your new AI built-in malware, cunts?
God, I gotta switch to Mint for good…
_Nico198X_@europe.pub 4 months ago
i hate this so very, very much
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So going forward, social engineering will also be applicable to some computers themselves instead of just the users.
tym@lemmy.world 4 months ago
windows 11 big button status confirmed.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’ll be killing that service asap
tym@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bold to assume your registry won’t restore last known ‘good’ config. Linux mint with quickemu is a great way to use Windows if you have to.
psoul@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Meanwhile I am rather happy that my older (gaming) PC is not suitable for Win11 anymore, due to TPM (first I was rather disappointed). For my daily stuff I use a MacBook Pro and the old Windows PC will eventually become a Linux PC.
The only problem is my work PC/Laptop, which runs on Win11 (my company wenn “all in” MS-Cloud and stuff), and which I occasionally also use to access some private files (which rest in an encrypted cryptomator vault, when not used).
Draegur@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
yarr@feddit.nl 4 months ago
What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Um, just in case, I’ll have you know that I name all my folders “trans porn”. It doesn’t mean anything in particular.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.
Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Transporters, more than meats the eye
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named “trans porn” would mean that there isn’t a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
With Unicode, you can.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
New organizing system just dropped. It’s just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 months ago
oppy1984@lemdro.id 4 months ago
My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I’ve picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.
Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shopping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I’m sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn’t locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.
hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they’d just “yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me”.
They’d get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 months ago
I have to use TaskManager now to disable co-pilot
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA
LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for ‘research’ use to amazon and google.
All that data is private, until it isnt.
Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually
Bunbury@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Getting new computer with Windows 11? Then wake what ever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 months ago
they got the idea from google, and samsung is doing the same.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Seems like a bad idea then. So obviously they’ll do it!
dan1101@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Only 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows, they are trying to squeeze money out of the personal data of users.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
So it’s going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don’t turn it on. Simple as. 🤷♂️
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click “Turn off Windows Copilot,” select “Enabled,” then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
Rooty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So it’s going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don’t turn it on. Simple as.
“Don’t worry babe, it’s just the tip”
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
opt-in for now… much like how they eventually snuck in their built-in spyware to screenshot your desktop behind the scenes.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Looks like Microsoft learn from the Recall controversy. By making the AI stuff opt-in. Sometimes you need to take the small wins from corporations. Because what’s all you going to get from them.
much like how they eventually snuck in their built-in spyware to screenshot your desktop behind the scenes.
Here’s the minimum system requirements for Recall. Like you can see you need a NPU, BitLocker and Windows Hello enabled. So has long you don’t meet the requirements. You have nothing to afraid of.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Is Apple doing this too?
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It’s kind of amazing how much they’re willing to tear down in hopes of this “” incredible “” AI vision
Wooki@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don’t know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.
Katana314@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m kinda just transitioning out now. I have some projects to wrap up on Windows 10 LTS that use programs that wouldn’t run well through WINE. When those are done, I’ll make use of Linux alternatives to that project software, and pretty much just have my Windows boot available for dire emergencies.
As it stands, most of my gaming is transitioned over, and my Windows partition just has enough space for a few games after project work.
BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Same boat. W10 LTS until I’m finished wrapping up some loose ends.
Then I’ll do a VM with GPU passthrough on an old Windows for non critical things.
I never loved or trusted Microsoft, but this (not just the uninvited transformers, all of it) is beyond unacceptable to me.
Reygle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Time to move those porn files to an external drive and encrypt.
BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
If you’re only doing that now…
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This guy porns :P
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“I see you are dual booting with Linux? I’ve reformatted that partition for you.”
Rooty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn’t given me any issues in the past 5 years or so
njordomir@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not sure if others have experienced the same.
For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven’t had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.
vimmiewimmie@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
I’ve read that dual booting Windows and Linux can have temperamental quirks and I’ve had my share of them.
Now, if I’m doing that, Windows fs gets isolated and I refuse to even connect it to the internet. But, outside of a legacy automotive shop program meant for XP, I’ve not needed Windows for a couple years.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You will use this thing we’ve pumped billions into!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 months ago
with all the tech ceos suddenly “sounding the alarm” about the AI bubble bursting and shoveling “bloatware/spyware” into all thier devices and softwares its not really surprising.