Technology

I'm not completely sure what I just read, and I wasn't looking for an extra reason to hate Microsoft, but it was well written, and I hate Microsoft more than ever. (Seriously, it's a good piece. And neither of the title nor anything I could say about it here would do it justice.)

Remember the good old days when Windows would ship thoughtfully coded tools that could be attributed to people who were proud of their work?

I for one am shocked that a company as respected in the AI space as Microslop™ would put a half-baked privacy-invasive program like this on their store.

This seems like the kind of thing they would package straight into the OS with no disclaimer and no means of disabling.

Maybe a cyber-mafia infiltrated MS to grab some user data? Stuff like

• setting itself to autostart
• hijacking the keyboard to make copies & screenshots
• encoding it in base64 (to avoid detection)
• using WebSocket (to work around proxy blocking)

sounds pretty much like from a malware playbook. At least not an accident.

Very strange, it almost feels like something made by a runaway AI