Some days ago we published good news for Windows users who prefer to stay on Microsoft's system in the future when they purchase a PC with AI hardware. In short, Microsoft has reportedly announced that Recall It would finally arrive in October, and although he didn't say anything about it, many thought it might be removed. Why? Because it appeared as one of the features that could be disabled.
Well, it turns out that the appearance of Recall among the list of options that can be disabled, and therefore somehow uninstalled, was a bugs which will be fixed in a future update. The Verge media consulted to Microsoft, and the response he received was that “We are aware of an issue where Recall is incorrectly listed as an option under the 'turn features on or off' dialog in the control panel. This will be fixed in a future update.«.
Recall stays
After the presentation of Recall, security specialists discovered something that makes your hair stand on end: part of The information collected was stored in an unencrypted text fileThis is a very gross security flaw that allows any hacker with the necessary knowledge to access the computer and see everything we have done with it, thus obtaining credentials, bank accounts and whatever else they want. Following complaints from many people, Microsoft decided to put the feature on hold, but it will be removed next month.
Microsoft's response doesn't include information about other changes made to Recall, so it's unclear if they've added any security measures and what those might be. The safest bet is that they've at least encrypted those text files, but that's something we'll only know for another 30 days or so.