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

  • gravitas_deficiency
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    6 months ago

    Dude the headline:

    this hacker tool

    It’s absolutely not a “hacker tool”. It’s a proof of concept. It’s just code. The author and/or editor is leaning on ingrained negative kneejerk reactions from less knowledgeable members of the general public towards the term “hacker”.

    • misterkiem@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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