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.

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    7 months ago

    The video posted by Moorshou literally shows someone getting a password and a credit card number from it. Yes, the password was due to someone clicking the show password button momentarily but do we just never expect people to use those or to not use a password manager that would show the password on screen at some point? Due to it doing text recognition, you would literally be able to just search for “credit card” to find all the times when it was displaying a credit card field on a checkout page or “password” to find all the times someone is logging in or using their password manager. And that’s using the built in search, not even exfiltrating the data and processing it with more specialized tools.

    You really need to watch that video to see what it can do and how easily it can do it.

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      7 months ago

      So even if it does ship like this guy thinks it will, it will take someone gaining control of the computer and having the victim click show password at the wrong time.

      The end is nigh.

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            7 months ago

            How does any virus run itself? Are you seriously this dense?

            Hint: there are many attack vectors, including no-click drive-by downloads, programs from Softonic, etc.

            EDIT: Does this person seriously believe that because Microsoft made it, it must be secure, despite that literally having just been proven wrong? And that pointing that out means I need to be smarter than everyone at MS? That explains the delusional argument they’re going with.

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              7 months ago

              Damn you are so stupid. But it’s normal for stupid people to think they are smart.

              Smarter guy here on lemmy calling other people names than all the people at Microsoft.

              I’m done here. Bye.