"Dubbed TotalRecall—yes, after the 1990 sci-fi film—the tool can pull all the information that Recall saves into its main database on a Windows laptop. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says."
P.S.: I'm sympathetic to the concept that "whole-disk encryption will protect this from most thieves", but I hope there's at least a little more defense-in-depth against other programs running as the user, snooping on that data without user-permission.
I mean, a malicious third-party screen-capture/keylogger program might be detectable by heuristics, but not-so-much if it can just indirectly draw from the stream of data being generated by pre-approved default program from the OS manufacturer...
The AI threats we received: People collecting tons of sensitive data in a really stupid manner because it is important to be able to make lots of press releases containing the word 'AI' while the market bubble lasts.
I haven’t held Windows in high regard in a long time but they somehow managed to lower the bar even further
We’ve just come back to a fancier Google Desktop search. It doesn’t need to be great if you have scale (Teams vs Slack uptake, for example). Rewind has to actively sell, sing for their meal. Everyone buying Windows is still going to buy Windows, Microsoft has plenty of time to iterate and polish.
> In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop. The reason given was that "In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued."
What is old is new again.
I was shocked to see people excited by it
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...
