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by jjcm
732 days ago
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I'd caution us to separate out the feature from the implementation. The feature provides the ability to search through all of the previous things you've done and gain context in an instant, in a way that can be queried with natural language. I think we can agree what it aims to achieve is beneficial. The implementation is what you're debating. I see these are two separate things, but they play hand in hand. If you get the implementation wrong, it can easily tank the feature. Still, the documentation for this seems to disagree with what you're saying. > This is a spyware that stores screenshots unencrypted This page[1] states "Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker". They suggest that things aren't shared with Microsoft, though I totally understand the skepticism there. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont... |
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That sounds like it just means it's encrypted at rest - ie. while you're logged out - but transparently decrypted in much the same way as everything else on the system while you're logged in. That is to say, any running malware would have just as much access as it would do on a system that doesn't use encryption.
From a functional point of view, it can be treated as being equivalent to being unencrypted, with the exception being when you aren't logged in - at which point you're not running any programs anyway.