This is a neat little trick, and even neater is if you have your own Windows app and you want to hide that content from Microsoft Recall, it's very straightforward to use it yourself: it's just a one liner:
SetWindowDisplayAffinity(hwnd, WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE)
SetWindowDisplayAffinity(hwnd, WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE)
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Kenn White
I love that @signal.org is using Microsoft's own DRM copyright API to block Windows from its own stupid new "feature" which takes screenshots of, well, everything and saves them. It's like an intellectual property Jedi mind trick.
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“Look, you can see from Recall that I was working on Q4 projections at the time someone hacked the payroll system!”
"Rickroll for Recall." It even has a nice ring to it.
Frees up resources,
improves speed,
reduces background processes,
improves battery life,
uses less disk space,
and offers fewer security risks.
Ask your doctor if not wearing heavy weights is right for you!
Back in ye olden times (windows 8), Microsoft introduced a cool new mitigation: win32k-syscall disable, which sort of does what you expect.