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Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The damage is mitigated by the fact it only recalls last 3 days by default

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Forensic data recovery. How many 500GB drives ship to PCs that never use more than 20% of that?

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Well driven by my 30 years in the industry, 25 of which I've been using Windows/MS software, I'm going to take that with some salt. If my laptop can't avoid having an existential crisis when my default browser is not Edge I'm going to throw shade and cast doubt about a feature no one is asking for being foisted upon us that can have what appears to be very serious repercussions.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago

"By default" meaning it can be changed.

Then someone in the company gets their device compromised, and security starts looking what happened on the device that time. "We'd have that data, but it was deleted yesterday because of the retention policy on recall" -answer from that new guy in IT dept. Security then reminds that the company policy requires minimum 30 days retention for all logging of security events.