- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
- cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works
this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.
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