• MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is about the Smart App Control feature in Win11 that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”. its basically a glorified keylogger built into the OS. Firefox should really follow suit and block this too.

    • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Holy shit, what a comment!

      This is about the Smart App Control

      It’s not, it’s about Recall.

      that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”

      It doesn’t. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR’s them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.

      built into the OS

      It’s not, you can turn both off at any time.

      its basically a glorified keylogger

      It’s not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn’t log any keystrokes. SAC isn’t even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.

      Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be “oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers” not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.

      Now you’re throwing SAC into the mix somehow?

      • silasmariner@programming.dev
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        2 days ago

        I worry that the prevalence of ill-informed hot-takes dilutes the validity of complaints, and I appreciate your work here