“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall
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Lol copyrighted material can be protected from recall but fuck your and other peoples privacy. What a joke Windows is.
The media companies have teeth unlike the rest of us
Not even that, m$ likes to pretend it makes cinema equipment. If it angers the studios it's beyond fucked
But aren't your texts protected by copyright as well?
in this case The word „Copyright“ can be freely exchanged with „People who have enough money and lawyers to even touch microsoft“
Simple text messages wouldn't typically be deemed copyright-worthy, but if you write a poem or take a good photograph etc. and send that, then it absolutely would be covered by copyright.
However, Microsoft doesn't actively publish your copyrighted material. If their improper storage results in your copyrighted work being leaked, that might be a lawsuit (like you might be successfully sued for putting your backup of a movie onto an insecure server on the internet), but now that Recall is opt-in and all, it would be a difficult lawsuit.
No, with passkeys you tell the TPM: Never give me the secret, even if I ask you. In this case, Recall needs the database decrypted to work. TPM won't save you.