Honestly even if Microsoft were trustworthy this is too much power for anyone. I actually like the recall feature but it would require a fully open source code to trust.
Even with a fully open-source implementation, that thing tells on you more than normal system logs. I like it being called “privacy bomb” - waiting to give extra data to whoever gets into the computer.
Unfortunately by the time a service does this they’ve already got you by the balls and they know it. This is essentially Microsoft telling the world “what are you gonna do, not use Windows?” Because for most of the world that’s not really an option.
Honestly even if Microsoft were trustworthy this is too much power for anyone. I actually like the recall feature but it would require a fully open source code to trust.
I feel like even if it was open-source, it would still be too big of a target for malware and data exfiltration to ever be justified for most people.
Even with a fully open-source implementation, that thing tells on you more than normal system logs. I like it being called “privacy bomb” - waiting to give extra data to whoever gets into the computer.
Unfortunately by the time a service does this they’ve already got you by the balls and they know it. This is essentially Microsoft telling the world “what are you gonna do, not use Windows?” Because for most of the world that’s not really an option.