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[-] d3m0nr4v3r@discuss.tchncs.de 94 points 11 months ago

Lol copyrighted material can be protected from recall but fuck your and other peoples privacy. What a joke Windows is.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago

The media companies have teeth unlike the rest of us

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Not even that, m$ likes to pretend it makes cinema equipment. If it angers the studios it's beyond fucked

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

But aren't your texts protected by copyright as well?

[-] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

in this case The word „Copyright“ can be freely exchanged with „People who have enough money and lawyers to even touch microsoft“

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Simple text messages wouldn't typically be deemed copyright-worthy, but if you write a poem or take a good photograph etc. and send that, then it absolutely would be covered by copyright.

However, Microsoft doesn't actively publish your copyrighted material. If their improper storage results in your copyrighted work being leaked, that might be a lawsuit (like you might be successfully sued for putting your backup of a movie onto an insecure server on the internet), but now that Recall is opt-in and all, it would be a difficult lawsuit.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 months ago

But the changes go only so far in limiting the risks Recall poses. As I pointed out, when Recall is turned on, it indexes Zoom meetings, emails, photos, medical conditions, and—yes—Signal conversations, not just with the user, but anyone interacting with that user, without their knowledge or consent.

Researcher Kevin Beaumont performed his own deep-dive analysis that also found that some of the new controls were lacking. For instance, Recall continued to screenshot his payment card details. It also decrypted the database with a simple fingerprint scan or PIN. And it's unclear whether the type of sophisticated malware that routinely infects consumer and enterprise Windows users will be able to decrypt encrypted database contents.

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