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This shit reads as if some low IQ pajeet wrote it. I know Microsoft bashing is good and fun, I dont use windows and hate it,
Regarding Encryption:
Everything in the user folder is encrypted and only accessible to the respective user while logged in. The blogpost author claims otherwise but never proves it - it would mean the whole windows encryption is broken, not this feature.
This obviously means that when you are logged in, you are able to access this data as if it’s not encrypted. But if you’re logged in as a different user (or not logged in at all and e.g. reading the HDD from a different computer), you’re unable to read the data.
It is the nature of encryption, and there is no way around it, that the data has to be unencrypted while reading or writing it. This is something any software developer should know.
Regarding Muh Hackers:
This has already been a thing fifteen years ago when you could freely download configurable RAT malware for windows XP. Any bad actor that gets malware on your computer can do anything you can do. This shitty new AI tool does not allow bad actors to do things they couldnt before. Malware had been reading out stored passwords, doing keylogging and taking screen recordings fifteen years ago. They do not need some crappy built in screenshot feature, and all that play around it is fear mongering.
„Mass breaches of websites“ like this had already been possible when you infect a mass of a website‘s users, nothing here changes. Data stealers care about usernames and passwords mostly, and you can’t get passwords (reliably on scale, which the author claims is the only important thing) from screenshots.
Muh domestic abusers have had a billion more reliable ways of tracking their cheating wives since the beginning of the internet.
Yes, this shit sucks, it’s another step in the „you won’t own anything“ direction, another stage of the gradual shittitfication of everything.
But the blogpost FAQ in the OP is a pile of fearmongering grandstanding bullshit. Windows takes screenshots and stores them with your other private encrypted data. That’s it. Attackers had already been doing that well over a decade ago.
Handwringing over muh GDPR and muh domestic abuse and muh granny‘s malware infected computer… and boo hoo Microsoft say it’s optional but it’s on by default, they say they’re taking screenshot but in the setup they’re calling it snapshots…. Jesus Christ what a whiny nothingburger
Regarding Encryption:
Everything in the user folder is encrypted and only accessible to the respective user while logged in. The blogpost author claims otherwise but never proves it - it would mean the whole windows encryption is broken, not this feature.
This obviously means that when you are logged in, you are able to access this data as if it’s not encrypted. But if you’re logged in as a different user (or not logged in at all and e.g. reading the HDD from a different computer), you’re unable to read the data.
It is the nature of encryption, and there is no way around it, that the data has to be unencrypted while reading or writing it. This is something any software developer should know.
Regarding Muh Hackers:
This has already been a thing fifteen years ago when you could freely download configurable RAT malware for windows XP. Any bad actor that gets malware on your computer can do anything you can do. This shitty new AI tool does not allow bad actors to do things they couldnt before. Malware had been reading out stored passwords, doing keylogging and taking screen recordings fifteen years ago. They do not need some crappy built in screenshot feature, and all that play around it is fear mongering.
„Mass breaches of websites“ like this had already been possible when you infect a mass of a website‘s users, nothing here changes. Data stealers care about usernames and passwords mostly, and you can’t get passwords (reliably on scale, which the author claims is the only important thing) from screenshots.
Muh domestic abusers have had a billion more reliable ways of tracking their cheating wives since the beginning of the internet.
Yes, this shit sucks, it’s another step in the „you won’t own anything“ direction, another stage of the gradual shittitfication of everything.
But the blogpost FAQ in the OP is a pile of fearmongering grandstanding bullshit. Windows takes screenshots and stores them with your other private encrypted data. That’s it. Attackers had already been doing that well over a decade ago.
Handwringing over muh GDPR and muh domestic abuse and muh granny‘s malware infected computer… and boo hoo Microsoft say it’s optional but it’s on by default, they say they’re taking screenshot but in the setup they’re calling it snapshots…. Jesus Christ what a whiny nothingburger
. Having normal people using the equivalent of root as there main account is a recipe for disaster. UAC may have been a good first step, but these admin accounts should have been fully neutered by now. Linux users know they shouldn't be running their normal user as root, and they same wisdom can be used with Windows by not using an admin account. I'm sure Microsoft is going to be jealous of Google and Apple who have operating systems with actually have sufficient security to pull something like Recall off.
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