Microsoft recall is fucking insane.
Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot+ PCs themselves, on the local hard disk, and are protected using data encryption on your device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker.
Your doing what? Microsoft wh-
Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds. [...]
[...] The default allocation for Recall on a device with 256 GB will be 25 GB, which can store approximately 3 months of snapshots. [...]
WHAT WHY NO ST-
Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. That data may be in snapshots that are stored on your device, especially when sites do not follow standard internet protocols like cloaking password entry.
Microsoft please... th-the tech support scams... think about what happens if this gets bre-
Recall also does not take snapshots of certain kinds of content, including InPrivate web browsing sessions...
Oh, okay I guess that's san-
...in Microsoft Edge.
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It treats material protected with digital rights management (DRM) similarly; like other Windows apps such as the Snipping Tool, Recall will not store DRM content.
Ah, but of course. The DRM is protected...
@capital You know what's the worst part?
It could be potentially great, if it wasn't coming from Microsoft. I'd love something similar (and better thought out) coming from a Linux distro.
@joojmachine @capital Great for fucking what? Spying on your employees? These programs already exist. I've been using ManicTime for app usage tracking - it can be helpful when a client asks for detailed time reports for billing. Pretty sure there's even a version that can take screenshots as well (if you're a deranged micromanaging boss). But this is a niche application, it has no business being preinstalled in anyone's OS.
@lidsel @capital I mean it's potentially great as a powerful snapshot tool, imagine Time Machine but for everything, live.
Fucked up and permanently deleted a file you wanted to keep? An app update messed up some feature you liked and you want to rollback its update? Want to go back to a particular point in your workflow? There's a snapshot.
@joojmachine @lidsel @capital What you're describing is essentially a btrfs snapshot and hardly relevant to what Microsoft is doing, which is about screenshots.
