Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
It was hard to miss the irony in Microsoft’s latest product announcement.
A new feature named “Recall” takes snapshots of whatever is on-screen on a #Windows 11 computer, every few seconds, and then stores it locally on-disk. Unfortunately it turns out that the analyzed data is stored in plaintext, leaving users’ private activity vulnerable to hackers. As security researcher Kevin Beaumont pointed out, “Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code.”
And yet #Microsoft named it “Recall.” It’s an interesting choice, given the problems it’s likely to create...
https://creativegood.com/blog/24/recall-switch-to-linux.html
#why #spyware
It was hard to miss the irony in Microsoft’s latest product announcement.
A new feature named “Recall” takes snapshots of whatever is on-screen on a #Windows 11 computer, every few seconds, and then stores it locally on-disk. Unfortunately it turns out that the analyzed data is stored in plaintext, leaving users’ private activity vulnerable to hackers. As security researcher Kevin Beaumont pointed out, “Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code.”
And yet #Microsoft named it “Recall.” It’s an interesting choice, given the problems it’s likely to create...
https://creativegood.com/blog/24/recall-switch-to-linux.html
#why #spyware