Today's work music: the Cobalt Core soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj1fc_OqDDs
This game is so good.
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Today, Central IT decided to send out a fake phishing email test. To everyone.
I think you can see how my morning has gone.
The University I work for has decentralized IT, meaning each College (Business, Liberal Arts, Engineering, etc.) runs its own IT department. We also have a Central IT department for things like wifi or email that everyone across campus uses.
Because we have a competent web person in our College, when you google "University IT" or "University Helpdesk" our little College helpdesk shows up rather than the main Central IT department one. Because it's google, we can't fix this.
Last post (at least for now) on this, but please feel free to reach out to me if you have questions on this.
I don't consider myself an expert on the Windows Kernal or anything like that, but I have extensive experience customizing deployments of Windows, using a lot of the tools and engaging with a lot of the systems being talked about with all this Recall stuff.
"But I see it enabled on my system!"
Having the parts of a feature like this on your system that are a small amount of what is required to run the full feature, is nothing new.
Microsoft can either choose to include the "bits" to be able to enable Recall on their own hardware inside their OS installers, or they have to create entirely separate install media for their hardware. Hell a few years ago they mashed up *all* of their install versions (Edu/Home/Pro/Enterprise) into one installer.
The short version is, unless you specifically buy a new, Microsoft Copilot+ branded PC, you WILL NOT HAVE RECALL ON YOUR SYSTEM.
Could this maybe change in the future? Sure, maybe 5+ years from now, but you'd still need to have bought a particular type of computer in that time. And you bet your ass that businesses out there will go at Microsoft with pitchforks if Microsoft tried to pull in all of their proprietary data.
And yes, this is all in support of AI bullshit, which Microsoft does also have a vested interest in figuring out how to make money off of. The whole situation is Not Great.
However.
The panic and misinformation I'm seeing about Recall is reaching chemtrails-level of conspiracy and fearmongering.
Now, I'm going to caveat some stuff straight away before going into a bit more detail.
Do I trust Microsoft to never try to enable this more widely? No I do not. However the hardware that it takes to run this stuff *does not exist* on current systems. You would have to buy a new computer for this to be able to work, from a hardware level. It isn't something they can decide to make active on everyone's current computers.