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  • 9 months

    The bad thing is that Apple would introduce Recall for all its devices in the future, just to keep its shareholders happy.

    • Local Snapshots have been available on OSX and MacOS since 2011 as long as you use Time Machine to make backups.

      • 9 months

        There‘s also the FSEvents database on the root of every disk which is a database of all the file events/operations that happened on that disk.

        Supposedly you can disable it, but I haven’t got it to work. For example if you download a sensitive file, do something with it, and delete it. You can see this in the FSEvents database.

        This is already a recall type feature at the file system level.

        • 9 months

          NTFS has that exact feature too, a log of file operations on the disk. They’ve had it long before Recall was a thing.

      • 9 months

        I’m referring to Microsoft’s AI Recall, but Apple should apply it to its MacOS or all its devices.