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Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages (futurism.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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In December, an investigation by Tom's Hardware found that Recall frequently captured sensitive information in its screenshots, including credit card numbers and Social Security numbers — even though its "filter sensitive information" setting was supposed to prevent that from happening.

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[+] Psythik@lemm.ee -11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

I don't understand why Lemmy is so obsessed with Recall. It currently only works if you have an ARM CPU with an NPU. Nearly every Windows user is on an x86-64 chip.

Yes I agree that it shouldn't exist in Windows at all, but everyone is complaining about a feature that less than 1% of users even have access to; the amount of people who opt into using is going to be even smaller.

Stop obsessing over it so much and find something different to hate on Microsoft over. God knows there's plenty of other reasons to dislike them. Seriously, it's so annoying. I'm about to set a filter for the word "recall".

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

First they came for the ARM CPU users type mentality

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee -2 points 25 minutes ago

*sigh* you're not wrong but the constant posts are annoying.

[–] equivocal@lemm.ee 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It only works if you have an ARM CPU with an NPU.

No, it works on x86-64 assuming the device has a sufficient NPU. Both AMD and Intel CPUs latest CPUs list the Recall preview as available now.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 63 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

How is this possibly going to be tolerated in business environments?

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They pay more for it not being switched on... Or it doesn't call out to home

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

"pay us money to not do something" sounds like some mob shit

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

I would guess my company absolutely wants it, but wants the I fo sent only to them.

In fact if they didn't already have something like this installed on our PCs I'd be floored.

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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 57 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

Just a tip: if you must use consumer editions of Windows regularly, consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.

The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.

The most popular playbooks strip out AI components and services (there are many more than just Recall) but also disable all telemetry and cloud-based features, replace MS bloatware with preferred OSS, curtail a truckload of annoying Windows behaviors, setup more sensible group policies than the defaults, and so forth.

I have a few custom playbooks for recurring use cases so that, when one presents, I can spin up an instance quickly without the usual hassle and risk.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 4 minutes ago

We did not take the easy path of writing our app in Java or a web-based Java-script heavy framework. Using C# and .NET allows us to craft an experience that minimizes resource use and is very fast.

This got me good. I just love how they try to make using .NET for making a windows application "not the easy path".

Sounds kinda interesting though. If I'm ever so unlucky as to having to use Win11, I will give it a try.

[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.

The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.

I know what most of these words mean individually

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Basically, a playbook is a set of instructions or baselines for how you want the system to look/be setup, and the provisioning tool will engage in however many tasks are required to configure the system to your specifications. I played around with something similar with PowerShell DSC, and its pretty cool to be able to eliminate config drift when it checks against the config and remediates any changes that weren't updated in the playbook.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 11 points 13 hours ago

This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I'm not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 74 points 15 hours ago

Well at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 131 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

woah, what, i can't believe it

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 35 points 16 hours ago

Shocked!

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 73 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This is the highest-quality, shocked Pikachu I've ever seen.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 minutes ago

Higher resolution but looks worse imo. Someone probably threw it in illustrator, used that auto vector tool or whatever and exported as high res without fixing the lines.

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 89 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

They say you can disable Recall by keep pornhub videos running in foreground.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

You can also disable Recall by using a Linux distro

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

be more malicious run PH and various porn sites.

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 111 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 2 minutes ago

Damn, what's the opposite of 1984?

[–] tischbier@feddit.org 51 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

In 1998, who could have predicted that in 2025, users would be the lords of porn pop-ups?

Forcing the Eye of Microsoft to gaze my mommy milker daddy dwarf bangers is truly the quintessential example of that which is nameless in the Tao.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

pornado,

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 14 hours ago

Have Frozen running in the foreground. I'm half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.

Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No shit?

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

to vast majority of people this is unthinkable. They will also likely just not even notice news like this because they dont pay attention to such things and likely dont even care about their personal info until something bad happens to them because of that.

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