this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

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    5 months ago

    In a hilarious and infuriating side note, MS is obviously doing their absolute best to blame-shift here.

    It’s code. It’s a project someone made to graphically illustrate and demonstrate, in the wild, why the entire concept of MS Recall is an absolutely awful, foundationally-flawed idea. It is not a “hacker tool”. The MS c-suite and board members are just pissed that stock go down as a result of their stupidity, and they’re looking for people to blame who aren’t themselves.

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      5 months ago

      MS is obviously doing their absolute best to blame-shift here

      There is not a single word in that article that says anything about blame shifting. That title was written by wired.com

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      5 months ago

      Where is the blame shifting? The article says they made no comment and the only MS quotes are just random pr feature blurbs

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        5 months ago

        Dude the headline:

        this hacker tool

        It’s absolutely not a “hacker tool”. It’s a proof of concept. It’s just code. The author and/or editor is leaning on ingrained negative kneejerk reactions from less knowledgeable members of the general public towards the term “hacker”.

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          5 months ago

          So that’s not Microsoft, that’s Wired doing that. Also it IS a hacker tool. It’s a tool to automate the scraping of data and sending it somewhere.

          He’s a white hat hacker, releasing the tool to raise awareness. If he was a black hat hacker he’d be holding onto it and praying Microsoft goes through with release so he could use it to compromise systems.

          I don’t see any blame shifting at all