Imagine that your Windows PC took screenshots of everything you do on it, including of personal data, credit card and other financial information, passwords, web sign-ins, emails, a list of web sites that you don’t want anyone to know you’ve been visiting, business information and more. Imagine your PC creates a searchable database of it all — and imagine how valuable that information would be if accessed by someone other than you.
No security or privacy issues there — after all, what could go wrong?
The answer is plenty. In a world in which Windows has been successfully hacked for decades, and continues to be hacked, in which Windows has allowed information to be regularly stolen from top tech companies, including Microsoft itself, and from high-ranking government officials as well as countless individual users, the screenshot scenario seems as if it’s the ultimate security-and-privacy nightmare.