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Security researcher discovers Microsoft's Recall tool is woefully insecure
The security story around Windows Recall hits a brick wall as it's discovered the data it collects is unencrypted.
Security researcher Kevin Beaumount has documented his findings on Windows Recall, and has revealed that the tool stores its data in an SQLite plaintext database. All your files are unencrypted when you're using your PC, yet most people aren't constantly concerned about malware potentially scraping their personal documents, pictures, downloads, videos, and synced cloud folders. If you're concerned about it potentially being enabled secretly in the background down the line, Microsoft has built-in security measures to prevent this.
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