Defiant Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial Recall

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Windows maker acknowledges 'clear signal' from everyone, then mostly ignores it

Microsoft is not giving up on its controversial Windows Recall, though says it will give customers an option to opt in instead of having it on by default, and will beef up the security of any data the software stores.on May 20 as a"feature" on forthcoming Copilot+ Windows PCs. It takes a snapshot of whatever is on the user's screen every few seconds.

And the more people looked, the worse things got for Recall. James Forshaw, a security researcher with Google's Project Zero, wrote anTwo days later, he amended his post to observe that privilege escalation isn't necessary as a user can simply deploy a readily available token that provides access to the Recall database."Turns out I was wrong about Recall being secure," he wrote.

Davuluri said that henceforth Recall will be offered as an opt-in service during the set-up process for Copilot+ PCs rather than as a default. In addition, Microsoft will require enrollment inso Recall snapshots will only be decrypted and accessible when the user authenticates. In addition, we encrypted the search index database.

Maybe next time, the listening and learning part will occur prior to the product release announcement.

 

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