I kind of see the appeal. “That one article I read that one time on who knows what app” is something I’ve wanted in the past and failed to find.

But I would absolutely never trust Microsoft to do it under any circumstances.

And if we pretend it isn’t Microsoft or Microsoft isn’t inherently super shady, all of the ridiculous security holes in the last version tell you that security was an afterthought. You don’t get a stable building by throwing a bunch of shit together then patching every hole someone points out to you after the fact. You get it by designing your building, from the start, with the understanding of how every element plays a role in the structural integrity of your design. Security is the same. You can’t just “make it secure” without starting over with security as a critical design goal.

One of the key changes is that Recall will be strictly opt-in, as Microsoft had told us before, as opposed to the default-on approach that was taken when the feature was first unveiled.

Also all the computation is done locally, not in Microsoft’s servers. I still think this is weird and I won’t use it, but I’m no longer threatened by it.