solarbird | Don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run copilot/recall

Don’t install any version of Windows 11 that can run Copilot/Recall if there is or ever will be absolutely anything on the machine you want to keep private in any way. Anything.

Particularly passwords, but in no way just that.

Not even if your hardware theoretically doesn’t support it and theoretically can’t run it. That doesn’t matter. Do not install it.

To be as clear as I can be, I’m not just saying “turn off this feature no matter what,” though if it’s already running, you need to do that right now and also purge your entire history and also see if you can scrub your system drive of all abandoned data files related to Copilot/Recall. I’m saying, literally, do not install any version of Windows that contains recall.

Yes, I am being obscure about why. Deliberately. I get this way when a problem is both too serious and too easy to replicate. This is the kind of shit I have in the past – when I was what one might call not a white hat – gone through trusted third parties to report and get fixed, mostly because of the “too easy” part.

It’s been a while, but I just did this again, some several days ago. I do not know whether anything is coming of it, but at least I have tried. And today, I have received information which – if correct, and that’s always an if – says that the situation is even worse than I thought.

One of the solutions I handed my third-party relay does, at least, address one of the new issues I am absolutely not describing here. However, none of the solutions I brought address the other issues I am also not describing here.

Do not install.

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