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Comment by mikehearn

I'm trying to square the claims in this article with what Microsoft says.

Article: "This database file has a record of everything you’ve ever viewed on your PC in plain text"

Microsoft: "Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker, which are enabled by default on Windows 11."

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...

The article is a little bit hand-wavy about how exactly the database comes to be decrypted and remotely exfiltrated. The headline says it takes "two lines of code" but unless I'm missing it, I don't see those lines discussed in the article.

parent mikehearn 2 years ago

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