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.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
    53·
    6 months ago

    Not OP but the scenario described is say… A company and a specific manager gets sued for harassment. The plaintiff can be entitled to discovery related to the complaint, and that could now include the searchable screenshot database from the managers computer showing all the clear evidence that he harassed the plaintiff. Nightmare scenario for legal departments of companies.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      353·
      6 months ago

      On the other hand, this makes it much easier for a corporation to spy on its employees, so I think at least some of them are in favor of this.

      • Melt@lemm.eeEnglish
        411·
        6 months ago

        If employees are using the corporate’s computers, they can already see everything the employees do, they don’t need this new window feature to do it

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          129·
          6 months ago

          That is by no means necessarily the case. For example, if a notebook is taken into the field and is not on the LAN.

          • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
            14·
            6 months ago

            A lot of companies are implementing better VPN tech (like SD-WAN, Nebula by Slack, etc), or at the least Microsoft Intune to ensure your corporate laptop is reachable anytime it’s connected to the internet.

          • scops@reddthat.comEnglish
            10·
            6 months ago

            My work laptop is a brick until it establishes a VPN tunnel back to the home network. There are ways to ensure the device only works how the company wants it to.

          • Miaou@jlai.luEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            Windows has some kind of built-in VPN feature that auto starts and will otherwise not give you any network access. Add on top of that some corporate firewall and you basically can’t sneeze around your laptop without IT knowing.

      • exanime@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        Hmmmm it depends… Are they going to make more money by spying on employees than they’ll lose in lawsuits?

        I think COVID WFH policies proved the majority of us do not need someone breathing down our necks to perform