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Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. (doublepulsar.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology
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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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[–] asap 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And from the article in the OP:

I got ahold of the Copilot+ software and got it working on a system without an NPU about a week ago,

[–] A_Random_Idiot 4 points 6 months ago

They are using that to sell NPU bullshit to the stupid people crazy enough to be excited by it.

Then down the road they'll push it in an update for everyone, I wager.

[–] andros_rex 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What even is a NPU, if it’s not necessary for the software to work?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Most of the newer CPU's have an NPU already, Microsoft just set a higher performance requirement for NPUs to be officially labeled an "AI PC" which they are pushing hard.