XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server   
   From: nobody@dizum.com   
      
   On 24 Jun 2024, mark@invalid.com posted some   
   news:okok7jd7j8cqui3dkjh8l1dsdchv1u0b90@4ax.com:   
      
   > branded “Copilot+.” Recall is designed to capture screen shots every   
   > so often (apparently measured in seconds), then allow you to scroll   
   > through that history so you can more easily remember what you were   
   > doing — and thus what you were thinking. Not unreasonable, right? I   
   > often stop and think, “Hang on; what was that site I saw after I last   
   > did a search?”   
   >   
   > Of course, browser history helps, but it can be imprecise. It might   
   > miss the exact page I was trying to recall.   
   >   
   > Or perhaps you want to see that Registry key you swore you set, but   
   > you now can’t remember where it was. In our home or office, how often   
   > do we stop and go back to where we started — just to remember what we   
   > got up to do in the first place?   
   >   
   > So the idea is laudable. A third-party vendor for Apple has had a   
   > similar product, Rewind, for several years. Its intent was to slurp up   
   > your interactions on your computer and make that history searchable.   
   > As you interact with your computer, the software reminds you about   
   > tasks that you forgot to complete. It’s like an electronic version of   
   > sticky notes.   
   >   
   > So why did this kind of feature cause such a furor over on the   
   > Microsoft side of things, yet generate nary a peep in the Apple   
   > environment, even after several years?   
   >   
   > Trust. Or, rather, our lack of trust in Microsoft.   
      
   It's not Microsoft.   
      
   It's the legislature who can force companies to build secret back doors in   
   products, or allow the FBI to trot right into a data center and seize   
   entire racks of computers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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