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

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Wow, it's pretty wild they didn't even attempt to encrypt or protect this data, even if it is local to your machine. What a treasure trove for malware to sift through.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It IS encrypted. Not well, but it's encrypted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Is it? I skimmed the GitHub source code and couldn't see anything involving encryption, but it's totally possible I missed something. Perhaps just accessing the database from python is enough to decrypt it.

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