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

  • misterkiem@lemmy.world
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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

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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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