xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.

Technology@lemmy.world – 658 points – 4 months ago

GitHub - xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.

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

You are viewing a single comment

View all comments Show the parent comment

For the kids

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

Morons:

Sony BMG initially denied that the rootkits were harmful. It then released an uninstaller for one of the programs that merely made the program's files invisible while also installing additional software that could not be easily removed, collected an email address from the user and introduced further security vulnerabilities.

That’s wild. I’m surprised I never heard of this. Straight up malware.

In a just society the Sony execs would have been jailed for CFAA violations.