For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.
From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."
Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.
I've written up my thoughts on the Copilot Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs
I think it will enable fraud and endanger users, and is not the sign of a company who are committed to security first.
In addition to security concerns, do you know if there are any study in term of cost of energy driven by Recall ?
Just imagine the ecological price of 1.4Giga (billion )computer burning, let say 10watt for recall...
And it will be active during activity. Let say 3000h per day per computer.
14 GigaWatt worldwide × 3kh ... 52 GWh...
This is an ecological nightmare.