“The automotive company Kia issued a recall on Friday of certain Telluride SUVs from the years 2020 through 2024 and urged the owners of the vehicles to park outside and away from structures because of a fire risk, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.
The issue stems from the front power seat motor, which can overheat..”
You know, that massive hub of public and private software projects that is the de facto home of open source.
The place owned by the same corporation that just tried to sneak a total surveillance system into the most used operating system by end users and business on the planet.
A couple of years ago I showed that we could start replacing this with a truly #decentralised alternative. See: #p2pgit
Folks who worked on it will move on to new features and the ownership will be transferred to the servicing devision (WSD).
After a while WSD will get fed up with the cost of maintaining yet another rarely used shell feature and will deprecate it. Either that or the shell team will rewrite everything again and drop it.
See: Cortana, Timeline, People on the Taskbar, Chat, Live tiles.
Wow, the fact it took everyone making a stink about Recall for them to do the right thing is telling! Microsoft should've known better than to be stupidly bold and feel self-assured about an invasive feature being on by default.
Still won't go back to Windows, as they might be sneaky as fuck about something else which compromises my system's security.
I'm happy on Ubuntu, so Microsoft can kick rocks for all I care. ROFL
It’s a start, but it does nothing to protect victims of domestic violence or people who’ve opted out but whose information is on the computers of people who’ve opted in.
MS Recall begs the question, “Who does this serve?”
Looks like Microsoft will make Recall opt-in. Seemingly they needed user feedback to figure out that people might not like the idea of them taking a screenshots of their screens every 5 seconds or so.
Security experts also pointed out that this would be a security nightmare. Pretty obvious, really.
This is another example why it is clear Big Tech is not to be trusted to make the right decisions, even when they are staring them in the face.
Desperate to not loose out, they are moving quickly to not be left behind, running blindly ahead without thinking of the consequences.
@jon tbh the tech isn't so bad, but its exactly that MS can't be trusted, that it can't be used. The next day MS decides to upload it into their cloud and then lose it.
I'm waiting for the first #microsoft employees to come out and share how, after hearing from management that they should always prioritize #security, they were met with apathy or resistance when they actually did try to escalate what kind of a privacy and security debacle #recall was turning out to be.