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I regularly get spam claiming that a hacker has compromised my device, has been filming me jerking off through my own webcam, and will send screenshots to my friends and family if I don't send them bitcoins. You know, the usual.

Once Recall is out the story will go from laughable to worrying - all they'll have to do is change their text to include instructions to open Recall (the same way old websites would open 'file:///' to show they 'knew' what's on your PC) and regular people will lose their minds (and money).

And then there's the age-old adage "if you can see it you can exfiltrate it" - it didn't work for DRM and it won't work here. Malware will steal this data.



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