<story><title>Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Your browsing history is unlikely to contain personal information, secrets, porn images etc. And if you use Chrome, they get your full browsing history by default.&lt;p&gt;I get your point, but Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Recall can capture &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; onscreen - emails, personal info, porn, passwords and the like. And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.</text></item><item><author>herf</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to compare this to the Chrome&amp;#x2F;Safari&amp;#x2F;Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It&amp;#x27;s just a bit less visual, Incognito&amp;#x2F;Private modes work, and some users clear it more often.&lt;p&gt;But a &lt;i&gt;whole lot&lt;/i&gt; of the surveillance attacks people imagine about Recall apply just the same to the browser. I think it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;little brother&amp;quot; casual attacks that are so well enabled by Recall - it makes it faster, easier, and way more visual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>&amp;gt; that little thought has gone into privacy or security.&lt;p&gt;I think the thought is proportional to the amount of thought a non-tech customer will put into it. Nobody seems to care about or understands privacy these days. Everyone knows they&amp;#x27;re being tracked everywhere they go physically and on the web. People use their real names, address, etc for every junk service they sign up for, without seeing any reason not to. If you tell people that their TV is tracking and taking screenshots of what they watch [1], they say &amp;quot;yeah, Netflix knows too&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s literally, &amp;quot;how it&amp;#x27;s always been&amp;quot; for any non tech person under 30.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;themarkup.org&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;themarkup.org&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;your-smart-tv-knows...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-off-default-security-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GordonS</author><text>Your browsing history is unlikely to contain personal information, secrets, porn images etc. And if you use Chrome, they get your full browsing history by default.&lt;p&gt;I get your point, but Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Recall can capture &lt;i&gt;anything&lt;/i&gt; onscreen - emails, personal info, porn, passwords and the like. And it feels, bizarrely for 2024, that little thought has gone into privacy or security.</text></item><item><author>herf</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s interesting to compare this to the Chrome&amp;#x2F;Safari&amp;#x2F;Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It&amp;#x27;s just a bit less visual, Incognito&amp;#x2F;Private modes work, and some users clear it more often.&lt;p&gt;But a &lt;i&gt;whole lot&lt;/i&gt; of the surveillance attacks people imagine about Recall apply just the same to the browser. I think it&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;little brother&amp;quot; casual attacks that are so well enabled by Recall - it makes it faster, easier, and way more visual.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SketchySeaBeast</author><text>I think they actually did consider that - that&amp;#x27;s why they emphasized it was all on device. They thought about it, they just didn&amp;#x27;t think about how little we would trust that promise.</text></comment>