Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

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    6 months ago

    I rather liked it. I mean he was just re-phrasing questions he’s seen without having to bother with direct quotes and making sure the questions were articulate.

    It’s pretty important to get this info out there and make sure everyone and their 2nd cousin knows about it. If Microsoft can’t make this absolutely infallible on a security front it will almost be laughable at how many people could get completely fucked over by this. Every hacker and country in the world are going to be poking at the security of this feature. It would be the holy grail of infosec penetration.