Windows AI feature that screenshots everything labeled a security ‘disaster’

Is Microsoft Recall an amazing new feature or a security disaster? As reported in The Verge:

Despite Microsoft’s promises of a secure and encrypted Recall experience, cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has found that the AI-powered feature has some potential security flaws. Beaumont, who briefly worked at Microsoft in 2020, has been testing out Recall over the past week and discovered that the feature stores data in a database in plain text. That could make it trivial for an attacker to use malware to extract the database and its contents.

Anyone using Windows 11 should read this.

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