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This Recall thing is a prime example of how bad we are at understanding when something is a systemic problem.
It doesn't matter if *you* disable it. It doesn't matter if *you* install Linux. It doesn't matter if *you* set your computer on fire and move to a Luddite commune.
If you have *ever* sent sensitive data, no matter how securely, to another person who now has this shit enabled, and they find your data and look at it, your data is compromised, and there's nothing you can do about it.
I don't know if I believe the theories that Microsoft is being pressured to introduce this by state actors who want to be able to spy on us.
But it would be darkly funny if, after all our paranoia about secret back doors, The Man just rolled up with a bulldozer in broad daylight to install a *front* door, complete with a neon sign and a welcome mat.
@confluency I doubt they are being pressured into it (I know product managers that would be capable of introducing something this stupid).
But I can guarantee that the border control and other state actors are popping Champagne.
@simontoth Yeah, personally I suspect that this is organic stupidity from managers high on their own AI assistant hype fumes.
But the only way to fix something like this is with legislation, and I worry that governments won't try very hard to legislate against something that's so... convenient.
@confluency @simontoth As in, "never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence?" (Or something like that.)
Not sure I buy that.