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Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 85 points 5 months ago

No major corp I'm aware of is excited about these changes. Legal especially would like there to be the minimum records retention required by law, and a months long AI searchable database of individual user actions on a PC is a nightmare scenario for them.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 38 points 5 months ago

If the IT departments of any major corp allows anyone within their network to enable this feature, they and everyone the work for need a permanent waning label for idiocy and utter incompetence attached to their resume.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 17 points 5 months ago

Can I forward your comment to my IT team? Because they've done worse than that already :(

[-] Ozymati@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know, if I was IT decision-making and I worked for a company I didn't particularly like I might install this for the executive stratosphere and hope for subpoenas.

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