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Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, Windows just keeps getting more obnoxious. It's crazy to think of how unobtrusive Win XP was.

And now this.

[–] SpaceNoodle 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember complaining about XP when it came out.

This shit, too, shall become normalized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What were the complaints back then?

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia notes a few of the things I recall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Windows_XP

[–] davidgro 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile, elsewhere on my front page:

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

Yeah, this is going to be a disaster.

(Edit: oh, it's already a subject of the article. That's good.)

[–] makyo 10 points 1 month ago

100% agreed. I can't even count on my lockscreen activating sometimes, why would I feel okay about this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago