Richard Gaywood

https://infosec.exchange/@penllawen

Reformed SWE, now a privacy engineer at Android.

I mostly post about tech, cooking (especially BBQ), dogs, and games. I'm always on some nerdy hobby, currently it's Home Assistant. I'm often joking. He/him.

I have a not-well-used side account for TTRPGs: Richard Gaywood (npub1w5t…2ea0).

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2024-05-24 09:03:37

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I doubt it, personally. MS will know this will be heavily scrutinised and even the barest of off-device logging will kill it stone dead. I think it’ll be squeaky clean from that angle.
The threat models I see around Recall are about access to the local files: either malicious (malware/hackers), abusive (partner abuse), or compelled (law enforcement.)

2024-03-22 18:47:18

I must confess, I am not seeing the reason for quite such a "the sky is falling" reaction to Threads starting to interop with Mastodon. I have friends there, and I would like to read their stuff (and have them read my stuff) without subjecting my eyeballs to the Threads UI, or contributing ad views to the house of Zuck. I'd also like to gently encourage them to migrate to Mastodon in the future, which seems a lot more likely to happen if they can still see all the stuff they care about that's currently locked inside the Threads walled garden.
Inside any Big Tech firm, there will be people arguing for and against open platforms and protocol interoperability. We're not helping the people trying to open things up if we attack the outcome when they make progress.