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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (17 children)

A device that surreptitiously gathers information on a target is called a bug, not a feature.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    More like malware

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  • [+] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago

    It's actually super simple: even though the community is called "Technology", there's A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:

    • only available on devices with an NPU.
    • local only, nothing goes out to the Internet (hence the NPU requirement).
    • opt-in - you need to turn it on yourself.

    There's nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it's malware is just showing ignorance.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Well, not really, a bug is unintentional. Even calling it a design flaw is a stretch, it's a feature that isn't for your benefit.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Bug" also means "listening device."

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?

    surreptitiously

    Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.

    If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It's a good thing that microsoft is trustworthy and you can believe everything they say. And that malware never misuses resources of the system on which it is installed.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Recall sits in a secure vault behind BitLocker encryption secured with Windows Hello.

    BitLocker+Windows Hello gets broken through, the world has a much larger problem than some screenshots, because that's the foundation of, like, 80% of enterprise security.

    If you're afraid that an attacker sits on your PC and just waits for you to unlock the vault, then you already have the PC breached to the point where they don't have to do that, they already have access to everything else.

    If you're afraid of the feature in anyway, don't use it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You trust microsoft implicitly no matter what they do, I get it.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't. I read tech specs and security analyses. You just stick your head in the sand whenever someone says "Microsoft", though. It's silly.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't trust them and they have given me sufficient reason over the course of decades not to.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So you still think it's 1990. Got it. Well, times have changed. We have better oversight. The EU has GDPR, user data is better protected. If they tried to pull off a "heist" and suddenly start grabbing these screenshots from users, the fine from EU would be historical.

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