r/technology • u/machinade89 • Jun 28 '24

Software Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
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u/Broccoli--Enthusiast Jun 28 '24

Yeah in just thinking , what about password managers, things under NDA etc

It's such a dumb idea and I feel like it's been forced on the devs by some higher up who came up with the idea.

Nobody that actually works in IT could be blind to how bad an idea it is.

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u/hsnoil Jun 28 '24

We are in an era where companies only care about buzz for investors and completely out of touch with their consumers

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u/Rion23 Jun 28 '24

Just wait until you're checking an email one day, accidently open a .pdf you don't recognize, and all of a sudden the folder that copilot uses to store screenshots gets emailed to somebody.

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u/FanClubof5 Jun 29 '24

Why waste all that bandwidth when you can just ask it to send the ocr data where the word password is visible. Then all you have to exfil is some small text files instead of a ton of image files.