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I was able to get Recall working on this bad boy 😎
Snapdragon 7c+ Gen3, 3.4 GB of RAM, no NPU in sight

Will cook up a tutorial soon, it's surprisingly good even on something this low spec 😊 If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them ✍️

@detective Question: Why would anyone deliberately choose to activate Recall? That thing is absolutely terrifying.

@Natanox I don't know, I kinda like it

Processing is done locally (if my little ARM laptop could scream from all the ML WorkloadHosts, it would) so the only worrying scenario for me is the device getting stolen which is a bit of an edge case

It's a godsend for someone as scatterbrained as me, being able to look for a past browsing or development activity based on simple keywords sounds nice

@detective You completely ignore the fact that it's a prime target for literally any virus. They don't even have to do any keylogging anymore since everything already was taken care of, only the sqlite db file has to be transfered.

I know all too well how it feels to be a scatterbrain, but this is both a security AND privacy nightmare. It's only a matter of time Microsoft attempts to use data from it (or the feature itself) for monetization as well.

All in all… please don't get too comfy.

@Natanox I mean, yeah

The inclusion of screenshots makes it a great target but it's not like it's difficult to pull someone's super sensitive and relevant data as-is

Dump the Chrome folder from my LocalAppData and either decrypt stuff with DPAPI on the spot or just jack my SAM keys and boom, so much interesting data

I do plan to look into how Recall stores (and protects) all its memories because right now everything online is speculation

@detective I've seen someone here talking about it, apparently firsthand (that's why I mentioned sqlite). Apparently it's first saved as screenshots, then those get analyzed by the process meant to run in the NPU for its output to be stored in an sqlite database also located in AppData.

@Natanox In case you find the thread again I'd be interested in reading it

Admittedly I don't spend much time on Mastodon so it could've flown under my radar

Albacore

@Natanox @Rairii Thanks. Gotta say I'm surprised by the default enterprise behavior. On the regular consumer Windows 11 Pro setup I needed to manually enable Recall in Settings for it to start capturing anything.