Ask HN: How to avoid Windows Recall as a Linux user?

4 points arscynic | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 06:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.599s | source

If one chats/mails with a person using Windows, despite using secure private protocols, every message will be stored by Microsoft’s Windows Recall. Either I'm missing something but this feature seems like the most grotesque breach in online privacy/security.

What are ways to avoid this except for using obfuscated text?

1. joegibbs ◴[22 Oct 24 06:15 UTC] No.41911672[source]▶
Ask them not to use Windows I suppose. But once you’ve sent anything to anyone you never know what they’re doing with it anyway. They could be forwarding your messages, the messages could be stored on Google’s servers, they could screenshot them and send them to people, they could train an LLM on your vocabulary to impersonate you, etc.
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2. arscynic ◴[22 Oct 24 07:27 UTC] No.41912008[source]▶
“But once you’ve sent anything to anyone you never know what they’re doing with it anyway.”

True, but this is the beauty of trust. I decide to communicate one way or another with someone depending on the level of trust. Them deciding to break that trust is a risk I chose to take. However, I do not choose to communicate with Microsoft, whatsoever. Windows Recall is the most blatant piece of spyware ever; beyond comprehension how this is so normalized.