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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 in
by 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 agoI 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 agoIt's not a "history of everything you've ever written". It's a document search index. Come on.