Microsoft’s AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages

Microsoft finally launches “call”, which is an AI’s powered feature that records almost everything you do on your computer by continuously taking screenshots in the background.

The tool is released exclusively to Copilot+ PCS, a line of Windows 11 computers designed using specific devices for artificial intelligence tasks. And if it seems like a nightmare, your doubts are not baseless.

It was originally launched last May, and Microsoft pulled the summons quickly after facing a wide -scale counter -reaction, one of the reasons why security researchers have found that retrieval clips were Stored in an unencrypted databaseWhich makes it a duck sitting for the infiltrators who will be able to see anything you have done on your computer if they broke into it. Since the first catastrophic appearance, this feature has been tested outside the spotlight through the Microsoft Insider program.

The huge risks were still under science even when they were renovated. In December, a Investigation before Tom devices I found this summons Sensitive information is often captured In its screenshots, including credit card numbers and social security numbers – although the preparation of “sensitive candidate” was supposed to prevent this.

For this latest version, Microsoft stumbled with some things to make the recall safer. For one, the screenshot database is encrypted, although it can be easily accessible, now. You now have to subscribe to save your screen clips, when you have to cancel the subscription. You also have the ability to stop calling on request.

These are good updates, but they will not change the fact that the summons is a gas tool in nature. and Art Technica He notes, as it poses a great danger not only for users who call on their devices, but for anyone who interacts with him, and who Screen snapshots will be treated by artificial intelligence – without a person on the other end he knows this.

“This would raise all kinds of all kinds [a user’s] Sensitive materials, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, videos and encrypted messages. Ars books.

Perhaps this is the most disturbing result – how it can convert any computer into a device that wipes others, making you more careful about what you send online, even for friends.

“From an artistic perspective, all this kind of things is very impressive,” security researcher Kevin Boumont warns in a blog post. “From the perspective of privacy, there are landmines everywhere.”

In his test, Pomont found that the recall candidate for sensitive information is still unreliable. This is the encrypted screen shot database? It is only protected by a simple pin with four numbers. But the most anxious discovery is the extent of a good summons in indexing everything that has been stored.

“I have sent a private message to delete it to someone with a picture of a famous friend who has never been published,” Bouont wrote. “Remember to take it, and index the person’s image by name in the database. If the other person was receiving an empowerment, the image would have been indexed under the name of this person, and it was later exported through the screenshot although it was a self -deletion message.”

Boomont’s advice is simple, but a realistic indictment of the case.

“I would like to recommend that if you are talking to someone about something sensitive that uses a Windows computer, you are in the future, you can check if they have been enabled first.”

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