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Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Or they go the WhatsApp way and offer users a free "online backup" of the data, unencrypted, turned on by default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Whatsapp is doing this? How do I turn it off?

edit:

Settings, Chat, Chat Backup

Was on me for me even though I never okayed it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Shit should be barebones by default. Features should always be opt in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can have the backups encrypted and stored in a google account.