#microsoft recall

If its existence wasn't already bad enough, everything Recall stores is kept in an unencrypted SQL database.

Even if Microsoft pinkie promises that Recall data is only stored locally, that will not stop malware from slurping everything you have done, are doing, or will do, from your PC.

If you're thinking you can just turn it off when it arrives in your Windows updates and be fine, consider the fact that your personal information is likely going to be on someone else's PC at some point.

I have worked IT for a Fortune 500 retailer and can tell you; if you make any large purchase, be it a car, an instrument, windows or doors for a home, or have any sort of custom order made, that task is done through a Windows PC that will have your personal info and payment information on it at some point.

Financial and medical institutions will have more care about this, but I can guess with a high degree of certainty that nearly any PC in a retail environment is susceptible to malware from unsavvy employees, and even more susceptible to a simple physical attack. In a busy store, basically anyone could walk up and plug a USB drive with a malicious payload to a PC used for transactions. Cash registers/tills are generally safer, since they will be running a maximum-stability older version of Windows that will not have these kinds of updates.

I'd love to hope that businesses realize this and demand a version of windows with AI features disabled, but AI is such a buzzword in the current market that products are popping up all over the place that do not directly have anything to do with AI, but are slapped with the label anyway. Microsoft does not care if home users complain. They care if investors, large business accounts, and system integrators do. Those people are nothing if not techbro hype train riders, so good luck with that.

This? This is super bad. Like super duper what the fuck are they doing bad.