Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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    Based on what Microsoft themselves said we know: everything will be stored (except edge private session…). They specifically say they don’t do content moderation: they log everything.

    Did you read the article?

    Q. Cool, so hackers and malware can’t access it, right?

    A. No, they can.

    Q. But it’s encrypted.

    A. When you’re logged into a PC and run software, things are decrypted for you. Encryption at rest only helps if somebody comes to your house and physically steals your laptop — that isn’t what criminal hackers do.

    As a windows user I’m not delighted by this.

    Edit: at this point you must be trolling…

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      If you are so afraid, you can just turn it of. You are aware of this are you not?

      OK if you think I’m trolling, why did you answer?

      I give you the benefit of the doubt you are a reasonable person who can go beyond their emotions of a feature of an os. And the emotions this article stirred.