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by PenguinCoder 663 days ago
Don't be so intentionally obtuse.

Are all of those things you said, and do, readily available in one easy to siphon up database? Easily searchable and reportable to nation state entities? Can I or LEOs read your Hacker News posts and comments, and easily determine exactly who you are and that your previously open tabs where porn and anarchy related websites?

No. RECALL is a damn privacy and security nightmare. Don't act like it's saving the world, it's intent is to close the walls in around you.

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> Can I or LEOs read your Hacker News posts and comments, and easily determine exactly who you are and that your previously open tabs where porn and anarchy related websites?

Not directly but in combination to other information it could.

The fact is, these kind of recording tools are not meant to publish your information to everyone.

> Don't act like it's saving the world,

I am not acting like that. I have no plan to use RECALL (I don't even use a single windows computer) nor any similar software.

However I find it funny that in any news about RECALL you see so many "privacy nightmare, will someone think of the children" comments while similar open source or proprietary projects for MacOs and Linux, or browser extensions predating RECALL were unanimously praised for their usefulness.

As any tool, you have to balance the risk of a leak in case your systems (or those that host your data) are compromised but it isn't in any way different than any other data you have online or locally on your computer.

You have as much if not much more to lose if your primary email account is compromised and you kept received email in the mailbox.