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> Right. Having a plain SQLite database with everything you do on your computer accessible to any program you or Microsoft run on your machine isn’t a problem a
by quotemstr 2y ago
> Right. Having a plain SQLite database with everything you do on your computer accessible to any program you or Microsoft run on your machine isn’t a problem at all?
We're way beyond the days when every program you run has equal access to all your data. These days, different programs have different levels of data access.
- 9dev 2y agoAre we, though? If I run an application as a normal user on Windows, it will run with my user account's privileges. And even if Microsoft put special care into the permissions on the database file—it's not like your typical Windows user wouldn't carelessly accept any UAC dialog they are presented with…
- diffeomorphism 2y agoYeah, about that... https://www.zdnet.com/article/ethical-hacker-says-his-windows-11-recall-ai-extraction-tool-is-not-rocket-science/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ethical-hacker-says-his-window...