Microsoft has hatched a plan to make tons of money off of this.
How do I know? It is Microsoft. They don't do anything unless they have planned it all out and run the math. Even with some PR hits it will still be a net positive in income.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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Requires Microsoft Hello, which seems to be a biometric login, which as I understand it means that it is not covered under 5th amendment protections against self-incrimination. You can't simply refuse to give up your fingerprint or facial recognition, and now cops just plainly have access to whatever your computer usage history is.
Microsoft Hello can also be a PIN.
A PIN isn't exactly high security...
The pin can be numbers, letters and symbols as well though
The default Windows Hello PIN
- Must be at least 4 characters long
- Can’t be longer than 127 characters
- May include uppercase letters
- May include lowercase letters
- May include digits
- May include special characters
That’s plenty secure and is not biometric.
There are options not to install MS crap on your computer.
Sure, I'm a Linux user.
I can’t wait to miss it
Gretchen, stop trying to make “~~fetch~~Recall” happen. It’s not going to happen.
Why do we need this?
We don't need this.
The idea is moderately appealing. I've definitely tried to find "that one thing that mentioned that other thing I saw 2 weeks ago" before.
But outside of Facebook (and TikTok/tencent/whoever), Microsoft is right up there with companies I wouldn't consider letting anywhere near it. And the complete absence of any concept of security in their first version would have completely disqualified it from being trustworthy even without their awful track record. You don't do something, then "add security" and get acceptable results.
We don't... big corpo Microsoft does.