So, Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 systems and this is a disaster.
How can you push a tool that siphons data to a third party onto a security-critical system?
What privileges does it have upon install? Who thought this is a good idea? And most importantly, who needs this?
#infosec #security #openai #microsoft #windowsserver #copilot
@sos Well. They said, it installed 'itself'. That's the answer. It's looking for a home, you see? 😂
Jokes aside, what a sh*t show. 👎
@sos The Problem is to install Windows Server and than use it as a security-critical system...
And obviously give it access to the internet.
@sos For your information this is not the full blown Microsoft Copilot, it is just a Webapp feature of Microsoft Edge. Look at the size of the Microsoft Copilot listed in the “Apps & features" screenshot.
More information here: https://windowsreport.com/copilot-is-getting-installed-again-on-windows-server-but-you-can-get-rid-of-it-with-this-policy-setting/
I got tired of their shit when they started forcing updates. Haven't used Windows privately or professionally for more than a decade.
Liking my Linux Mint home server more every day.
@sos I think the inference here is… if it runs Windows, it clearly isn't "security critical".
Otherwise it wouldn't have cruft like Microsoft Copilot on there.
@sos How? With whatever tooling they use to do something like this.
Why? Because they’re allowed to.
Underlying reason: Capitalism.
Not at all surprising, is it? If you allow someone to do something, they will at some point.
I'm now down to my one last Microsoft app, which runs on a virtual Windows 10 machine. I am looking forward to never seeing anything of theirs again...
@sos I also get a warning about #MS installing some chat bot into my chrome browser every couple of months.
Something about "#BGAUpsell " - but so far I couldn't find much about it. It doesn't seem to be a virus... but one would expect an out cry about MS hijacking other programs. I guess that's normal now.
Attached: 1 image I'm getting #Bing Popups on my PC. And the only explanation I found is that it's truly #Microsoft installing Adware and hijacking #GoogleChrome settings via #MicrosoftEdge updates. I'm not sure though, since I see no outcry about this #BGAUpsell app. This just can't be legal, right?
@sos I don't believe MicroSoft can make a lightweight telemetry tool and less one that fits into 8KiB of storage.
It's a stub as of now but they can probably update the app and tell the user that they already had the app installed.
Or it could be an add-on for Microsoft's ADs in Windows engine so they can advertise CoPilot in the Windows file explorer and MS Paint.
@sos Such slimy behavior.
Does anyone have a link to a well-researched article about what data exposure there is from this if you don't actually use Copilot?
oh hey new era of "AI computing" lol. Also a new era of data privacy being compromised.
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