Yeah, we have similar sensors at my job. I work in a highly secured facility and smoke/vape detectors are installed in all the bathrooms. It makes the fire alarm go off if detected.
Denying putting work stuff on your phone is absolutely valid. The company should provide a company device in that case. And if you do agree to put company data on your phone, they should give a monthly stipend towards your phone bill. That’s how every org I’ve worked at has approached it.
I don’t recommend Bitwarden. I used them in a corporate environment and they lost all of our company’s credentials. It was a huge hit that cost tens of thousands worth of man-hours to overcome. Their response was to shrug and say sorry. We were paying a premium for their services, too, and have moved onto LastPass.
For individuals, yes. For organizations, no. Orgs who know what they’re doing use a HSM for their data encryption. Thus the title of this post is inaccurate.
But from the consumer side, I am absolutely never going to buy a “Copilot Plus” device, whatever that is.
I thought that surely it couldn’t be that bad. But…
“Recall uses Copilot+ PC advanced processing capabilities to take images of your active screen every few seconds,” Microsoft says on its website. “The snapshots are encrypted and saved on your PC’s hard drive. You can use Recall to locate the content you have viewed on your PC using search or on a timeline bar that allows you to scroll through your snapshots.”
I'm taking a long biking trip soon and want to share my live location with my boyfriend in case something happens. Any recommendations for privacy-focused apps that can accomplish this? I'm on Android, he's on iOS.
For personal use? Just rely on Windows Defender and common sense to avoid getting viruses. If you already have (or suspect) a virus, there’s many guides out there for virus removal and most parts will apply to external hard drives.
It took 20 years, but we’ve finally come full circle from ASCII art.