Microsoft Recall is capturing screenshots of sensitive information like credit card and social security numbers

[rykerrk]

Did you know: This feature incoming in testing was what prompted me to install PopOS on my APU build as a test case, and it went pretty well. Seeing this story reminded me that it's coming. Guess what just got flashed onto an installation SD, tonight?

Thank you for making the decision to go to Linux so easy for me, Microsoft. Hope your AI investments go up in flames. Honestly the progress on the things I care about in my OS (gaming) have gotten so good and so easy in Linux that making the decision to drop Windows couldn't have been easier if they'd paid me to do it. Got my passwords exported to CSV... restarting. Here we go!

 

[captaincranky]

How could a company as large as MS think this was a good idea? How, after a significant period of public outcry of "we don't want this, its stupid", could they CONTINUE to think this is a good idea?

My Prince, have you given any thought to the idea that M$ continues to believe this is a good idea, not it spite of, but simply because the public is outraged by it?

 

[AndreV]

How could a company as large as MS think this was a good idea? How, after a significant period of public outcry of "we don't want this, its stupid", could they CONTINUE to think this is a good idea?

Dont be so naive. This is isn't an extreme case that would revert back. In fact this trend will continue for some years to reach level unimaginable for the present moment.

 

[yRaz]

Dont be so naive. This is isn't an extreme case that would revert back. In fact this trend will continue for some years to reach level unimaginable for the present moment.

My work is considering switching to Apple over security concerns with Windows 11. My work laptop is currently windows 10 and the IT department is fighting tooth and nail to stay away from W11.

 

[techlife]

How could a company as large as MS think this was a good idea? How, after a significant period of public outcry of "we don't want this, its stupid", could they CONTINUE to think this is a good idea?

Simple, they know it's a bad idea for us but they don't care because they want to pretend having access to your data for AI training so that they can charge for access to ChatGPT is somehow a now a useful "feature" in Windows.

 

[techlife]

I'm gonna make so much money from this, removing the data it generates from my customer's computer's when they slow to a crawl with no free storage space. Of course the first thing I will do is turn it off (after discussing with customer - but I can guarantee very few will want to keep it once I explain what it does)

 

[scoffer]

They just tried to dump this garbage on my two Win 10 home pc's. Thankfully, Revo Uninstaller (free version) did an excellent job of getting rid of it.

 

[techlife]

They just tried to dump this garbage on my two Win 10 home pc's. Thankfully, Revo Uninstaller (free version) did an excellent job of getting rid of it.

Um it hasn't been released yet, it will be opt-in, and you need copilot to run it so I assume you have uninstalled copilot? What ever Microsoft dumped on your computer it wasn't Recall. Copilot preview maybe. You can just uninstall it. If it's copilot preview it's just a link to the browser in which case you can disable it there or disable the copilot widgit in your toolbar. It's right to be anti-micoroaft fpistware but at least understand how it works

 

[scoffer]

Um it hasn't been released yet, it will be opt-in, and you need copilot to run it so I assume you have uninstalled copilot? What ever Microsoft dumped on your computer it wasn't Recall. Copilot preview maybe. You can just uninstall it. If it's copilot preview it's just a link to the browser in which case you can disable it there or disable the copilot widgit in your toolbar. It's right to be anti-micoroaft fpistware but at least understand how it works

Ah yes -you are correct. It was Copilot that appeared, and was subsequently removed. Personally, I blame the numbnuts who wrote this item concerning Recall -- and stuck a picture of the Copilot logo at the top of the page................................got my old brain a bit confused. By the way........what is "fpistware"?

 

[techlife]

My bad, typo. "foistware". Software pushed on you by a vendor. In particular an operating system vendor.

 

[VectorVortec]

Clearly this is not perfect and it needs some signaling from applications when sensitive information is displayed, like pdf forms and so on. But come on, storing credit card number and cvc, username and password in text documents is a big security problem and it is fully on the user, not on Microsoft. Of course, it provides another attack vector but ... you can store that info encrypted in a password manager, no need for plain text files on the desktop. It is ok to report this and make users aware of the issues, but blaming Microsoft for this is out of proportion.

MS designed it. They are responsible for what they do.