"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.
Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.
The system doesn't work for you.
I find it equally fascinating that in order to get anywhere near an integrated computing experience in 2024 we apparently need constant recording and transformer models.
No structured file systems, no permission models, no shared stores, no capabilities - just firehose the display output and hope for the best.
Microsoft recall is not "AI." AI is simply a marketing term
@sarahjamielewis We could certainly get a simpler & more capable solution to the problem Recall addresses with modern Computer Science by essentially reimplementing the entire OS to use CRDTs, but who's got the time for that?
The next best thing would be filesystems with efficient backups... Like BTRFS!
@sarahjamielewis It's more that that list of things is artificial constructs imposed on the user to make the computer's life easier. It's bending the user's mental model to be more machine like.
Far better to bend the machine to think more like its user, so that the user can say "Hey, what was that article I was reading yesterday? The one about the whales?" And the machine has any hope of answering that question.
The right way to do it requires a lot of people to agree in a lot of things. Even worse, most of that people doesn't care about that kind of things. So, brute force.
Current AI is pure brute force. We don't know how to do something, we feed a program with billions of examples, in the hope that it gets the idea of what all of them have in common. So now we have a program that is doing something it doesn't have a clue of what it is about, programmed by literally a brainless programmer. And it hallucinates. Surprise!
@deepthoughts10 @sarahjamielewis
Ah yes, the "you do you" of safety and security
(are they, though; for how long; and it's still going to be a massive shitshow when it's a legitimate feature on by default rather than dodgy)
@sabik For people who have bad memory: "Disabling" "telemetry" when spyware10 was introduced didn't disable shit. It merely reduced the frequency of data collections (which was still quite frequentl).
Then when people started sniffing network and noticing there was still data collection, M$ changed their options nomenclature in its menu. So M$ wouldn't be accused of lying… But still, they DID lie in the first place, by implying you can "disable telemetry"…
@sarahjamielewis Microsoft Information Protection will certainly require a massive overhaul for any of these devices to be permissible in sensitive networks with “Recall”. From what I can see, they’ve essentially limited the existing screenshot protection functionality to Microsoft apps like Word and Outlook where you can apply sensitivity tags.
Or we’re about to see a lot of vendors advertise 3rd party tools to mask/blank application windows system-wide with dummy DRM flags
@metaphase @sarahjamielewis
I suspect the vast majority of places where data access is legally required to be controlled have neither the expertise nor the funding nor the institutional support to do anything of the sort
Every teaching assistant entering last week's marks (or, worse, sick notes)
If this thing is so secure and without downsides, why does it need to exclude DRM'd content?
@sarahjamielewis It doesn't, and I don't trust Microsoft to *not* eventually offload it into the cloud at some point into the future.
However, at least for the time being, they seem to promise that Recall is being done exclusively locally, including analyzing the periodic screenshots.
That being said... if I was using Windows still, I would turn that off *immediately* anyway. Even with their promises of only processing it locally.
@sarahjamielewis That's mostly a side-effect of how the data is tagged.
We already have enough "bit coloring" guardrails in place to decide whether is_drm is True for every pixel on the screen. We don't have a similar oracle for is_password_field or is_pin_number. Note that for Edge, it will exclude their version of Incognito Mode, because the OS does have visibility into whether those windows should be considered private.
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