Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.
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Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest security setback in a decade.

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.

  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    5 months ago

    The bizarre thing is, they have solved it. PowerToys Run is the Spotlight omnibar of everything and they bizarrely haven’t chosen to bake it into Windows proper. I can’t use Windows without it now. Search files and folders everywhere faster than the start menu search, search running processes, execute commands, do maths, calculate hashes, open web pages. It’s fantastic.

      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        5 months ago

        Both. I’m one of those weird people that uses Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS on a daily basis (Android probably less than daily now as I’m not travelling as much as I used to). My job necessitates it but also I just enjoy having mixed estates at home to stay fresh. I am, however, eager to stop using Windows at home as the overall security health and conscience of Microsoft these days seems to be trending downwards.

        • Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Windows hasnt quite felt as risky as it does now, that I can remember at least.

          Luckily my company outsourced the IT security department to India and have since had a handful of breaches and zero remediation efforts. I’m sure this windows stuff is firmly in the “care later” bin.