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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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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

We've seen it before, it's not idle speculation. Windows machines have been the hosts of the largest botnets in the world. Whenever a company does something stupid like this it invariably gets into the wrong hands. It's not even a question of if it will happen just when it will happen.

Oh and it's not "Linux users" saying it, it's everybody with an ounce of technical common sense. We're all here shouting at Microsoft "it's a bad idea" and they won't care and it will go exactly as badly as predicted.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Oh and it’s not “Linux users” saying it, it’s everybody with an ounce of technical common sense.

Which kinda correlate with each other. Which allows for a certain bad faith argument to be made.

[–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, we have seen it many times before. Much ado about nothing. New feature that will mean some new security measures. Everybody will move on and in a year nobody will remember how some people in the Linux community were panicking.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I will never find out exactly when your bank data is stolen because of this, so I'm just going to laugh about it now.

[–] NoiseColor@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago

Go ahead laugh. Because you will indeed forget all about it and never remember your doubts and panic laughter as nothing will happen.