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Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.
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Why? Who's asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.
I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.
Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC's, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.
This is well said. So many people don't get that of course these companies know you hate this shit.
They're just trying to boost their stock value and violate your privacy harder.
Once you realize this, you also realize that there's no going back for them either. If by some slim chance there's enough resistance for them to pause or rollback some features, it's only temporary. The overall course remains clear and they will continue to move in that direction regardless.
There disdain for you as a consumer could not be made any clearer.
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I don't think MS is out of touch with what the customer wants, I think they just stopped listening.
The fact is nobody is asking for this stuff.
I think the hope is that they build it anyway and then people will use/want it. AI is the big buzzword of the decade, just like 'cloud' was the big buzzword of last decade.
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In theory, I could use an AI for doing stuff. For example, opening ripped videos, finding the timestamp where the episode name is given, and then copying that into the video's filename. Afterwards, it can open Handbrake, use my preferred settings for audio and subs, then start the conversion of multiple files.
However, this is all predicated on the AI not doing unwanted things - such as giving Microsoft my personal information, preferences in hentai, and passwords.
Someday I will use agentic AI, but it will be on my terms.
I've read this exact questions tens of times now. This is capitalism. Now why would a for profit company ever do anything? I leave you to your deductions.
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"I see you are dual booting with Linux? I've reformatted that partition for you."
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The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I'm using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I'll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
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How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?
Just pirate windows server or other enterprise editions which can be used only by business
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My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I've picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.
Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
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Windows is the security risk
As if recall wasn't bad enough.
Recall 2.0
What's the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.
Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
It's kind of amazing how much they're willing to tear down in hopes of this "" incredible "" AI vision
How long until we can trick the Ai into deleting the System32 folder?
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Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don't know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.
I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn't even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.
Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?
Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.
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Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.
Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:
DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh
Planning on spending a months wages building a monster rig that runs Windows 11?
Cool. When it's done just take whatever your CPU, GPU, RAM is and reduce the number by 50-75%. Have fun.
Um, just in case, I'll have you know that I name all my folders "trans porn". It doesn't mean anything in particular.
Transporners, more than meats the eye
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Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
cackles maniacally in Linux
Well, they won’t be accessing my personal folders and files because I just won’t use Windows. Thanks but no thanks. That’s really creepy.
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What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?
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