What may be a moot point for me is not a moot point for millions of users. This feature seems to be enabled by default and needs poking into settings to disable.
Microsoft have proven time and again, by their acts and omissions, that they can't be trusted.
Relevant quote from the source: "During testing this with an off the shelf infostealer, I used Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — which detected the off the shelve infostealer — but by the time the automated remediation kicked in (which took over ten minutes) my Recall data was already long gone [ie. exfiltrated to a bad actor's device]."
What may be a moot point for me is not a moot point for millions of users. This feature seems to be enabled by default and needs poking into settings to disable.
Microsoft have proven time and again, by their acts and omissions, that they can't be trusted.
Relevant quote from the source: "During testing this with an off the shelf infostealer, I used Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — which detected the off the shelve infostealer — but by the time the automated remediation kicked in (which took over ten minutes) my Recall data was already long gone [ie. exfiltrated to a bad actor's device]."