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Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Spotlight7573@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on

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[โ€“] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not storing this shit unencrypted was pretty fucking obvious dude.

[โ€“] ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 5 months ago

Pretty straightforward systemic failure -- Dev team, I would guess, assumed full disk encryption would cover it, and nobody checked the assumptions. Or to rephrase: it was fucking obviously encrypted dude.