Ex-Microsoft security expert torches Windows' new 'Recall' feature

Microsoft's new Copilot+ AI-powered computer history saving feature, Recall, was already being likened to one of the many fictional dystopian tech products found in episodes of Black Mirror on the very day it was announced last month.

Now that Recall is in the hands of cybersecurity experts, the reaction to the new Microsoft feature is somehow even worse than what critics imagined.

"Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code," wrote cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont, who formerly worked at Microsoft as a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst, in a new hands-on review of Recall, in which he declares the product a "disaster." Microsoft's Recall is apparently riddled with security flaws that make a user's entire computer history, including passwords and other sensitive information, openly available to bad actors.