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“In practice, that audience’s needs are a very small (tiny, in fact) portion of Windows userbase”

Simon Willisonsimonwillison.net ↗

Recall screenshots the screen every few seconds, OCRs it and dumps the text into one SQLite database. Microsoft’s own Defender spotted a stock infostealer and still took over ten minutes to act. The Recall file was gone before it did. Microsoft built a memory aid for a few busy executives and gave every piece of malware a single file to grab.