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Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I miss when Microsoft was just evil and greedy and not stupid.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Is it stupid? I doubt MS cares about the absolutely miniscule amount of people who will care enough to complain about this. Those people would probably just turn the feature off, or use a different OS, anyway. Catering to that audience isn't something MS cares about.

The average user won't do a thing. MS gets to outsource the computational work of all this spying to their users and then hoover up the data at the end. Microsoft stands to gain a lot from this in the markets where it will be allowed to fly.