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Since I don't think some people are grasping how bad this is: Unless a) your job has some version of windows that doesn't have these systems and tools in it, and b) work/life firewalls are PRISTINE, and I mean literally ZERO interconnections, even via email or calendars, the entire windows 11 OS has just become a threat surface. 4 comments
Sent a very angry, very detailed email to my University's Vice-Chancellor for IT/CIO; I mean what else can I fucking do about it right now? Edit: Some of you need to rethink your lives. IS2FG if one more of you says "just put linux on it," thus completely ignoring that a) not everyone has the ability to do that to a computer on which they work, b) it's not just about me, and c) not everyone has NOR SHOULD THEY HAVE TO HAVE the skillset to do a linux move, even if they have the inclination, I am going to LOSE it. *Does the Elliot Reid "I Told You So" Dance* "This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI: Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is." |
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And for anyone who's like "PShh! no organization dealing with sensitive data is gonna allow machines that ship with this into their org's networking ecosystem!": You're wrong.
I *Just This Last Week* got a new laptop from my university and copilot was already enabled, and pressing the "copilot" (reskinned context menu) button overrides even the group policy editor-level fix to turn it off, immediately reactivating it and resetting the GPE toggle to default.
So. Yeah. Bad.