There will be a way to turn it off.
Unless Microsoft execs watch their porn on non-Windows machines.
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My favorite:
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Hopefully not just a user switch, but a way to enforce it turning off by application.
For example, I cant imagine a scenario where I want my taxes or banking websites recorded for posterity for anyone who gains privileged acess to my PC.
Or the entire health care field which has to protect patient information that appears on screen. I can’t see my local privacy laws allowing this on anything that sees patient information…
(In short I don’t like this at all)
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Yet again, they went with Could before thinking about Should.
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It’s time for a Windows Defenestration!
Having spent a lot of time crawling through GPOs and user account settings, MS already has enough of the Windows system dedicated to tracking you. This is several steps beyond the already disgusting degree to which they do this.
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It’s honestly kind of amazing that they managed to release a ‘feature’ that made the speed with which last year’s much hyped “AI PC” was replaced by this year’s much hyped “Copilot+ PC” leaving buyers holding the bag look miles from being the shabbiest part of the reveal.
At this point listening to the ‘AI’ guys is as depressing and weird as the crypto guys; except that the AI guys don’t seem to be safely contained in their own little world of ransomware and HODLing; but actively threaten to grind us all into intellectual soylent.
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For now. Give it a fiscal quarter or two and you’ll be paying more to opt-out.
Give it another quarter after that to learn that you weren’t actually opted-out anyway.
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This isn’t a Microsoft original idea: I let this Mac app record everything I do — now I can search through my own life | Laptop Mag
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Obviously we’re in the fun house mirror universe.
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I’m just surprised that Edge is still a going concern. I don’t know a single person who uses it.
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that’s okay, i’m sure your can use the ai to accurately generate a screenshot of what the webpage would have looked like. /s
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Ok, to be fully honest, I think that makes sense in a corporate environment.
There are already policies to block USB mass storage and discourage other exfiltration channels.
Are these measures 100% effective? Of course not for a determined user, unless the machine is so crippled than a slide rule would be more useful…
Case in point: my work laptop does not allow USB drives to be used, acting as a remote desktop host, or installation of unapproved SW.
It still can access remote desktops on a remote RDP gateway as a client, so a simple copy-paste operation can export (or import!) any file you choose.
Could this ‘hole’ be closed?
Yes, no doubt, but RDP functionality is crucial in many cases.
Our IT department won’t let us use anything else.
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Ooh! Scary good point!
You may be in a position where leaders in your company are hot to turn on Microsoft Copilot Recall.
Your best counterargument isn’t threat actors stealing company data.
It’s that opposing counsel will request the recall data and demand it not be disabled as part of e-discovery proceedings.
The threat that keeps your executives up at night are lawyers, not hackers.
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It might be worse than anything else.
Except chrome, nothing is worse than Chrome. It’s adware and data exfiltration software that is optimised for other people using your processor for their purposes. You can also, barely and very slowly, browse the web on it between its actual use.
When we tested Edge it was pretty fast for our work purposes and we recommended it to users.
I, of course, couldn’t have the stank of it around me even if it was empirically good.
But the amount of times during lockdown people told me “oh my wifi is terrible I can’t do stuff” and you’d look at their system and go “no. You’re barely touching your wifi but chrome is absolutely thrashing your system” was unbelievable.
Delete it now.
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