Windows 11's Recall is a brand-new headline feature for Copilot+ PCs. While the idea is interesting, researchers say it makes it way too easy to steal everything you viewed or typed on your computer.
Oh, you’re saying that Recall is a privacy nightmare and a sweet target for malware? Surprised_pikachu.jpg
That’s entirely unrealistic and not particularly helpful. I mean, if you can and want to, by all means, that solves most of this immediate issue. In practice, many people just don’t want to move, especially if they’re not tech-savvy, are locked into that ecosystem for work or have devices that only work well in Windows (hi, that’s me).
So for now mitigations matter. Plus this is, on paper, an optional feature only coming to some devices (and that’s assuming you believe they won’t be forced to back down from this absolute trainwreck). At this point, I’d recommend explaining the issue to Windows users who woudn’t be experienced enough to know. And hey, if you’re in a position to do what you do in a computer on a different platform and want to go that way, that’s also reasonable. That’s just not going to be everybody, or even most people.
I personally moved some of my family members to an Android device for home computing years ago and have never looked back, but I do use Windows on multiple devices and on most I either can’t or don’t want to switch, so… yeah, mitigation is important for many of my use cases.
Best avoid Microsoft all together in the future. There’s nothing of value left.
That’s entirely unrealistic and not particularly helpful. I mean, if you can and want to, by all means, that solves most of this immediate issue. In practice, many people just don’t want to move, especially if they’re not tech-savvy, are locked into that ecosystem for work or have devices that only work well in Windows (hi, that’s me).
So for now mitigations matter. Plus this is, on paper, an optional feature only coming to some devices (and that’s assuming you believe they won’t be forced to back down from this absolute trainwreck). At this point, I’d recommend explaining the issue to Windows users who woudn’t be experienced enough to know. And hey, if you’re in a position to do what you do in a computer on a different platform and want to go that way, that’s also reasonable. That’s just not going to be everybody, or even most people.
I personally moved some of my family members to an Android device for home computing years ago and have never looked back, but I do use Windows on multiple devices and on most I either can’t or don’t want to switch, so… yeah, mitigation is important for many of my use cases.