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So the Windows search uses an index to make search faster. Amazing discovery!

• progval 8y ago
  The issue is that this search index contains the plain text.
  • kyberias 8y ago
    Of course it contains the plain text. The index is used to search plain text. It indexes documents on the disc that are already plain text. It only stores sensitive data if the user had sensitive documents on the disc that were then indexed.
    • progval 8y ago
      But it's possible to have a search index without the plain text. For instance with a (rolling) hash.
• rocqua 8y ago
  It seems like they want to use the data for a training set though. That might suggest some of it not remaining local...
  • kyberias 8y ago
    What makes you think that?
• infogulch 8y ago
  Right, I don't really understand what part of this is news. Search engines use indexes, and handwriting programs learn your handwriting: congrats you win the internet. Everything about this seems to be trying to froth up outrage. Scary clickbaity headline, check. Quotes from named 'experts in the field', check. Embedded tweets showing how to 'expose your password', check. From the perspective of a non-technical user, the format reads the same as an article on a major data breach. And yet we wonder why we have a hard time getting users to pay attention to real security problems.
  • givinguflac 8y ago
    I strongly disagree. You’re telling me Microsoft could not take any further steps beyond storing this in plain text? Come on. Someone steals your laptop and has a history of everything you’ve ever written, without it being clear that’s even a concern.
    • kyberias 8y ago
      It's not a "history of everything you've ever written". It's a document search index. Come on.