Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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    Unpopular Opinion: This is why Microsoft were such assholes about making sure Windows 11 required a modern TPM and this is also why they are forcefully rolling out Bitlocker encryption turned on by default on all Windows 11 PCs.

    Is Recall still a fucking stupid idea? Yes, resoundingly so. But they’ve half-ass considered the risks, it seems. The forceful rollout of Bitlocker is dumb and short-sighted in its own right, and it wouldn’t make a person completely secure from outside attacks rooted in a Recall exposure.

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      That’s not an unpopular opinion, it’s an outrageously stupid and uninformed one and you should keep it to yourself.

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    As reasonable the concerns are… it seems like there’s quite a bit of fearmongering over software and hardware that haven’t even really gotten into the mainstream yet.

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    Are Microsoft a big, evil company?

    A. No, that’s insanely reductive. They’re super smart people, and sometimes super smart people make mistakes. What matters is what they do with knowledge of mistakes.

    I have no doubt there are smart employees, but they don’t call the shots. Case in point.

    The dude set up a strawman argument, then didn’t even bother to burn it down properly.

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    This is a feature hundreds of millions of people will use and very likely won’t cause any security issues. These doomsday scenarios every Linux user here is predicting is a bit much, don’t you think so?

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      Are you braindead? Yes yes taking regular screenshots of the desktop can’t possibly be a security risk, right?

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        You can define almost anything as a security risk. But we aren’t children to play such stupid games.

        We are talking about someone gaining that information and the probability of that happening without even knowing what security mesaures will be in place. I think the risk is negligible even today with the limited information about it that we have now. Other People here, presumably you as well are hysterical about it.

        Thats what the discussion is. You actually believe Microsoft will launch this and then everybody will be hacked or something. I think that is… not smart.

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          No, I don’t think “everyone will get hacked or something”, don’t put words in my. I mouth for the sake of your argument.

          What it is, and this is undeniable, is a massive fucking privacy and security hole if someone gains control of your computer.

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            I didn’t want to put words in your mouth, but wanted to clear up where each of us stand so there is no missunderstanding.

            If somebody gains control of your computer today, that’s a massive privacy and security hole in itself.

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              If you didn’t want to put words in someone’s mouth then you shouldn’t have said something like

              You actually believe Microsoft will launch this and then everybody will be hacked or something.

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                Oh a knight in shining armour trying to defend my dialogue partner?

                Did you ask anyone needed defense? Because I’m pretty sure they don’t.

                If you read carefully I wrote “or something” at the end implying that I don’t know exactly what they believe. It was not that subtle of invitation for them to agree with my first assessment or correct me. I will try to be really blunt in the future, so that you don’t missunderstand again.

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                  ? I’m not defending anyone, I’m calling out bullshit when I see it

                  I don’t really care that you like watching kids through their bedroom windows or whatever

                  If that doesn’t accurately describe your views, no worries—I said “or whatever,” so it’s fine

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    Does anyone yet know how to break stuff like Copilot?

    I don’t have Win11, but I also never really trust that MS won’t surreptiously push this kind of thing in the background to legacy systems, and I don’t trust UI toggles within Windows to actually do anything.

    Do we know if there are services or files that Co-pilot needs to function?