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  • Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 7:51 AM

    RE: cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog

    I'd love a tell all interview one day about what happened with this one, they somehow got the Microsoft CEO himself to unveil something that barely functions and hadn't been through proper security reviews to tier 0 outlets media.

    It's pretty wild watching back the interviews a few years later as Satya appears to think he's unveiling one of the biggest computer features ever made - and it just faceplanted from minute one.

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  • Tero Hänninen0xtero@ohai.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 8:01 AM

    @GossiTheDog Considering the leading AI players are adding desktop integration features only now, Microsoft could have had decisive upperhand in the PC AI game, had this feature been actually functional. Instead they threw it hard and lost it completely.

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  • SwiftOnSecuritySwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange
    Sep 6, 2026, 8:24 AM

    @GossiTheDog they did eventually go back and put tons and tons of work in it they were proud of including stuff I know that isn't strictly public (I suspect you probably know the same) so I was expecting it to be a lot higher profile. Really strange...

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  • Acesabeacesabe@infosec.exchange
    Sep 6, 2026, 9:01 AM

    @SwiftOnSecurity
    And even if it was working perfectly, has it even got even close to being data privacy and security compiant (GDPR etc)? Any company with mission critical data to safeguard that uses Win 11 with Recall enabled leaves itself wide open to abuse and potential compliance violations.
    The fact it now appears to be abandonware hardly fills one with trust or confidence.
    @GossiTheDog

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  • Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 11:30 AM

    @SwiftOnSecurity security wise it’s much more robust but the feature was DOA from the beginning I suspect.

    Alcohol’s one of the biggest industries as people pay to forget, a feature that remembers everything people do at home is a very tough sell when porn is a one of the biggest industries and #1 AV alerts are piracy.

    Apple rightly went all in on privacy, Microsoft went all in on looking like big brother. I suspect MS would sell more PCs by announcing Recall not being included.

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  • Fennixfennix@infosec.space
    Sep 6, 2026, 11:39 AM

    @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity

    Is this that surprising though? This is the cycle: big spend, flashy announcement that's too early, and the crumbling into obscurity because people already have a well worn path for their daily computer use.

    Every one of these "revolutions" going back as far as I remember have been largely short lived and the few that haven't have only limped along as long as they have due to CEO ego or finding that one niche where it makes sense.

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  • Moses Izumi (he/him)moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
    Sep 6, 2026, 11:52 AM
    @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity
    when you think about it, they really just elevated their telemetry from a background process to a headline feature.

    [Apple's privacy is mostly a marketing campaign and being marginally less invasive than Google's stuff, but Lockdown Mode is kind of a neat concept.]
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  • Gavin_calmdowndear@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 11:53 AM

    @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity I’m on a forum where someone floated this idea about 15 years ago, and I ridiculed it hard as something that wasn’t possible to do (because of the storage density required) and even it was was, no one would ever want it.

    Unfortunately the industry appears to have caught up with the storage demands, but I’ll still take being 50% correct…

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  • Robert Steinrasldasl@techhub.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 9:50 PM

    @GossiTheDog @SwiftOnSecurity The enterprise market has M365 Copilot which is a better implementation of a similar idea. But we disabled Recall before there was a single supported PC even on sale. No way anyone wants this on their home computer.

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  • Alex Hoffmannmangochutney@social.lol
    Sep 6, 2026, 8:55 AM

    @GossiTheDog it‘s just never a good idea when companies start to believe in their own bullshit. If there’s no person in leadership anymore who‘s able to critically analyze a project, or if those kind of people are silenced, you get stuff like this.

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  • USB Type-Steve :verified:USBTypeSteve@infosec.exchange
    Sep 6, 2026, 1:06 PM

    @GossiTheDog I wonder if that was a breaking point for him. Ever since, he's been doing strange things, almost acting like a child despite being the CEO. He's delegated most of his work to his direct reports and he now seems to just write bizarre AI blog posts in his spare time.

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  • Eric Liknesscarpetbomberz@mastodon.online
    Sep 6, 2026, 2:30 PM

    @GossiTheDog

    Add to this the Unique Key Identifier MS failed to mention everyone has implanted and has records of in their master database of license copies of Windows,...

    You have,...
    1.)Recall taking screenshots of what's on your screen, that doesn't get moderated, blurred or blocked out for things like passwords, and more
    2.) A secret Unique ID Key for each and every effing computer (which by MS licensing deals) IS Required to have, to prevent MS from suing the manufacturer.

    Yeah it's bad

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  • fuzzyfuzzyfungusfuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 2:32 PM

    @GossiTheDog I'd be especially curious to know how the original incarnation(which was basically some AI bro's desktop mockup in terms of not even reaching the point of having a security architecture to start poking holes in) managed to effectively become the face of the (otherwise potentially more promising) ARM PC initiative; and get treated as a feature random end users would clearly love; rather than something to sell to people who buy "enterprise knowledge management" software.

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