this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
663 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59589 readers
2910 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
663
xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)
submitted 5 months ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] kayos@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Imagine if they zero day this.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol "if". This thing is going to be a massive target.

[–] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Someone has already demonstrated using an off-the-shelf infostealer to steal the Recall database from a test computer. It won't take any special skills or technology for this to be a problem.