Let’s see how long it takes a hacker to exfil this data like Microsoft’s attempt. No one wants this shit. Why do these companies insist on including bloat and overhead to my operating system?
The issue isn’t storing it as plain text (although that is a serious problem). The problem is these types of behind the scenes processes like Siri or Cortana or a LLM take up processing power that I want to use for other things. Most of the time these things are impossible to disable so it’s wasting system resources for something I don’t want or need.
i mean historically, this isnt new. CPUs and GPUs will always introduce some new compute unit thats highly specific workloads using up die space. take cpu examples like AVX2, AVX512 for example, or Aegia Physx hardware, or Nvidias Tensor units to allow for tech like raytracing/upscaling or all hardwares video decoder/encoders.
Companies will push the changes on their hardware regardless, and they will only remove it if it interferes with a core design of a chip (e.g Intel P/E cores disable AVX512 because E cores do not have AVX512 units) or gets i a point that barely anyone uses it.
if you never want to buy into thia kind of tech, then choose to never buy whoever is the most popular cpu/gpu in a market, because people at the top invent new things to further the gap between them and everyone else, as they are usually first and foremost, publically traded companies.
It’s Apple so security mechanisms are probably implemented at the hardware level. Microsoft’s thing was dumb because it was just an unencrypted SQLite database that any program could just read.
I also love how outfits like Tom’s Hardware are acting like the update to require Windows Hello authentication before using Recall is privacy enhancing. At least in the US, if a biometric is all that is between a state-level actor and your encrypted data, the biometric mechanism isn’t constitutionally protected according to current precedent - passwords are (though there may be subsequent obstruction charges in the event of refusal to comply with a password request).
Let’s see how long it takes a hacker to exfil this data like Microsoft’s attempt. No one wants this shit. Why do these companies insist on including bloat and overhead to my operating system?
At least Apple isn’t taking a screenshot of your device every three seconds and saving it in plain text.
The issue isn’t storing it as plain text (although that is a serious problem). The problem is these types of behind the scenes processes like Siri or Cortana or a LLM take up processing power that I want to use for other things. Most of the time these things are impossible to disable so it’s wasting system resources for something I don’t want or need.
i mean historically, this isnt new. CPUs and GPUs will always introduce some new compute unit thats highly specific workloads using up die space. take cpu examples like AVX2, AVX512 for example, or Aegia Physx hardware, or Nvidias Tensor units to allow for tech like raytracing/upscaling or all hardwares video decoder/encoders.
Companies will push the changes on their hardware regardless, and they will only remove it if it interferes with a core design of a chip (e.g Intel P/E cores disable AVX512 because E cores do not have AVX512 units) or gets i a point that barely anyone uses it.
if you never want to buy into thia kind of tech, then choose to never buy whoever is the most popular cpu/gpu in a market, because people at the top invent new things to further the gap between them and everyone else, as they are usually first and foremost, publically traded companies.
That’s fair.
Hopefully there’s a toggle to turn it off.
You can turn off Siri and I believe the other ai features are opt in.
It’s Apple so security mechanisms are probably implemented at the hardware level. Microsoft’s thing was dumb because it was just an unencrypted SQLite database that any program could just read.
I also love how outfits like Tom’s Hardware are acting like the update to require Windows Hello authentication before using Recall is privacy enhancing. At least in the US, if a biometric is all that is between a state-level actor and your encrypted data, the biometric mechanism isn’t constitutionally protected according to current precedent - passwords are (though there may be subsequent obstruction charges in the event of refusal to comply with a password request).
FTFY, maybe time to reflect a little.