Comment on Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought
Pekka@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Although this feature sounds helpful, it really looks like they went too far with this. They should probably look for a way to sell these Copilot+ pc’s in another way if they can’t get this secure enough and probably keep it disabled for companies…
I’m surprised they didn’t make sure that the part that should help you hide sensitive information worked well before letting the first testers get their hands on the feature. All this bad news about the future doesn’t help convince people to turn it on.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
How were they supposed to test any of it, without releasing it to testers? Recall is an “Insider Preview” feature, it’s nowhere close to a final feature.
Sharp312@lemmy.one 4 months ago
From my understanding recall stored the screenshots it took unencrypted. Atleast encrypt the bloody data before releasing it to anyone outside of ms
Meshuggah333@beehaw.org 4 months ago
It doesn’t store screenshots, it stores text it gets via OCR from the screenshots in a SQLite database. Still one of the worst ideas these idiots ever had.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
“Insider Preview” features are proof of concept stuff, they can add encryption before the “Public Preview” version.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Doing some internal security testing for a start. QA should always have a couple passes too.
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Precisely my point.
If people don’t want to be part of the internal testing, or part of the QA testing, then they shouldn’t be running “Insider” or “Preview” stuff.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Insiders are not MS employees, though. That is also not the same as trained QA or security. You or I can join the insiders program. It is essentially public beta