[contact9879]

it is absolutely insane that we're forced to DRM our own applications to protect ourselves from our own computers

[baby_souffle]

Agreed. Reading this makes my head explode a little.

15 years ago, DRM was all about the DVD restricting where and when it could be played. Now it seems like we're using DRM to reassert our own rights?

This timeline is cursed.

[contextfree]

I think there was always a similarity or homology between DRM and many privacy scenarios that people care about:

Party A sends information to party B intended for use in a specific context, but wants to limit the risk of it being stored or forwarded for use by other parties or in other contexts.

DRM typically connotes that party A is a media company and the information is a movie or something, but - as in the case the article is about - party A could also just be a regular person and the information could be private personal info.

[gruez]

It's not even real DRM in any meaningful sense. It's just asking the OS really nicely to not allow the window to be screenshotted.

[mmcnl]

No, you can just turn Recall off. You don't need DRM for that.

[orangecat]

Yeah, I'm a bit confused at all the Recall outrage. It's an opt-in app that only stores data locally. If you think they're lying and are going to secretly upload the screenshots, well they can do that already.

[ThePowerOfFuet]

Enabled by default ≠ opt-in.

[mmcnl]

> To use Recall you need to opt in to saving snapshots, which are screenshots of your activity

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-ste...

[chii]

> we're forced to DRM our own applications to protect ourselves from our own computers

it's an interesting irony, but it has an apt comparison to GPL - forcing the laws of copyright to enforce freedom.

It's a classic "hack" of the system!

[lenkite]

Go back 10 years and tell people that MS periodically takes screenshots of your apps and sends them to MS and there would be heavy lawsuits.

AI has made people idiots in more ways than expected.

[xp84]

They're "Sending them to MS"? Huh?

[kristofferR]

Well, it's not so much our own computers we need to worry about, it's more computers we think of as ours, but we actually borrow from our school/work.

Windows Recall would be a pretty good feature if it somehow only worked for real personal computers.

[TiredOfLife]

It is absolutely insane that FUD and misinformation is the default now.