I guess Microsoft is hoping that everyone has short memories or something because Microsoft has amended their blog post on Recall to say this:
Update Aug. 21, 2024: With a commitment to delivering a trustworthy and secure Recall (preview) experience on Copilot+ PCs for customers, we’re sharing an update that Recall will be available to Windows Insiders starting in October. As previously shared on June 13, we have adjusted our release approach to leverage the valuable expertise of our Windows Insider community prior to making Recall available for all Copilot+ PCs. Security continues to be our top priority and when Recall is available for Windows Insiders in October we will publish a blog with more details.
To remind you, Microsoft Recall is meant to continuously take screenshots of user activity. Then it scans those screenshots with optical character recognition and saving the text and the screenshots to a giant searchable database on your PC. The problem is that anyone with any sort of access can get access to that database as highlighted here. I am not sure what Microsoft might have done to address the issues that other people found, but you can bet that all sorts of people will be poking around the insider builds to see how insecure that Recall is or isn’t. Microsoft better pray that it’s a secure as possible or this will not end well for Microsoft.
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Microsoft Is Going To Try Rolling Out Recall Again
I guess Microsoft is hoping that everyone has short memories or something because Microsoft has amended their blog post on Recall to say this:
Update Aug. 21, 2024: With a commitment to delivering a trustworthy and secure Recall (preview) experience on Copilot+ PCs for customers, we’re sharing an update that Recall will be available to Windows Insiders starting in October. As previously shared on June 13, we have adjusted our release approach to leverage the valuable expertise of our Windows Insider community prior to making Recall available for all Copilot+ PCs. Security continues to be our top priority and when Recall is available for Windows Insiders in October we will publish a blog with more details.
To remind you, Microsoft Recall is meant to continuously take screenshots of user activity. Then it scans those screenshots with optical character recognition and saving the text and the screenshots to a giant searchable database on your PC. The problem is that anyone with any sort of access can get access to that database as highlighted here. I am not sure what Microsoft might have done to address the issues that other people found, but you can bet that all sorts of people will be poking around the insider builds to see how insecure that Recall is or isn’t. Microsoft better pray that it’s a secure as possible or this will not end well for Microsoft.
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