<story><title>TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature</title><url>https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>Security aside, I&amp;#x27;m genuinely unsure what problem Recall is even meant to solve.&lt;p&gt;Like most AI products and features announced over the past 18 months, it feels like a bunch of product people got into a meeting where they looked at the capabilities of the latest OpenAI model and then started spitballing feature ideas based not on user needs but on what GPTs can do. &amp;quot;Oh, these models can do OCR... why don&amp;#x27;t we screenshot everything that a user has ever done, OCR it, and make it searchable!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m genuinely interested to know if there are use cases that people see for this beyond the obvious retroactive infostealing on a grand scale. What would you do with this feature if you had it?</text></comment>
<story><title>TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature</title><url>https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cientifico</author><text>If an intruder gets into my local account, I&amp;#x27;m far more worried about them stealing my cookies or accessing company IP than my browser history.&lt;p&gt;With cookies and browser access, they could get into my emails, family photos, bank accounts, and even read desktop notifications from my phone&amp;#x27;s SMSs.&lt;p&gt;For developers, the real risk lies in the variety of dependencies our apps have, which could get compromised.&lt;p&gt;So, this isn&amp;#x27;t really news. There are also tools to access all your iMessage history from a Mac, for example.&lt;p&gt;I believe the feature is really useful, and for sure you can turn it off.</text></comment>