Windows Recall Not Optional

[Ringel05]

Windows Recall is a built in app that takes "pictures" of everything you do on your computer every five seconds......... When first announced Microsoft seemed to pull it but now it's been re-instituted. Supposedly they added encryption and local storage on each individual computer, they claim this is all for "our benefit". Someone found a shut off selection that supposedly actually uninstalled it and guess what........ Microsoft claimed it was a "bug" and that "bug" is being removed. Independent hack testers have already stated this is a major dumpster fire, a security nightmare.
I'm lucky in that on my Windows gamer I was actually able to set up a local account so none of the Microsoft telemetry shenanigans have affected me. As of yet that is, I don't trust Microsoft to somehow disable my local account sometime in the near future with an upgrade. And some people wonder why I use Linux as my primary daily machine..........

Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare – here's why I'm worried

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

windows 11 is infested with bugs

 

[White 6]

Windows Recall is a built in app that takes "pictures" of everything you do on your computer every five seconds......... When first announced Microsoft seemed to pull it but now it's been re-instituted. Supposedly they added encryption and local storage on each individual computer, they claim this is all for "our benefit". Someone found a shut off selection that supposedly actually uninstalled it and guess what........ Microsoft claimed it was a "bug" and that "bug" is being removed. Independent hack testers have already stated this is a major dumpster fire, a security nightmare.
I'm lucky in that on my Windows gamer I was actually able to set up a local account so none of the Microsoft telemetry shenanigans have affected me. As of yet that is, I don't trust Microsoft to somehow disable my local account sometime in the near future with an upgrade. And some people wonder why I use Linux as my primary daily machine..........

Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare – here's why I'm worried

Is it also on any update of Windows 10. Also, how much longer do you think I can continue to use Windows 10.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

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[mamooth]

Also, how much longer do you think I can continue to use Windows 10.

Official Microsoft support for Win10 ends Oct 14, 2025.

It will still be "safe" for a while after that.

I figure by that time, someone will have figured out an easy way to sneak Win11 on to older machines that don't officially support Win11. There are ways to do it already, but they're not easy.

 

[Hellokitty]

Windows Recall is a built in app that takes "pictures" of everything you do on your computer every five seconds......... When first announced Microsoft seemed to pull it but now it's been re-instituted. Supposedly they added encryption and local storage on each individual computer, they claim this is all for "our benefit". Someone found a shut off selection that supposedly actually uninstalled it and guess what........ Microsoft claimed it was a "bug" and that "bug" is being removed. Independent hack testers have already stated this is a major dumpster fire, a security nightmare.
I'm lucky in that on my Windows gamer I was actually able to set up a local account so none of the Microsoft telemetry shenanigans have affected me. As of yet that is, I don't trust Microsoft to somehow disable my local account sometime in the near future with an upgrade. And some people wonder why I use Linux as my primary daily machine..........

Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare – here's why I'm worried

I don't get why or how they would use such information, but then I'm computer illiterate, beyond the basics.

 

[Ringel05]

I don't get why or how they would use such information, but then I'm computer illiterate, beyond the basics.

Millions of people pay their bills online, bank and shop online. Recall will copy all of your keystrokes, accounts, passwords, banking information, etc............ Might as well just post all of that on the open web for all to see and use if your computer and encryption files are hacked.

 

[toobfreak]

Windows Recall is a built in app that takes "pictures" of everything you do

windows 11 is infested with bugs

Lucky for me that I use a McIntosh and the the only Windows I run is emulated XP in order to run very old apps.