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by cjbprime 900 days ago
That's not describing a bad outcome, it's describing how the tool works.
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Oh, well I think what he meant is that some malicious program could read and transmit this unencrypted recorded data which is normally stored in an encrypted form
Thanks, I think so too, but the threat model is a bit odd. On a Mac, potentially malicious programs do not normally have access to files in every location (e.g. the prompts to allow a process to access your Documents dir); there is hardware-backed crypto available for further protections; full disk encryption; and so on. It's unclear to me how to evaluate the severity of the risk.

Every security decision is a risk-reward tradeoff, and the reward of a complete memory of computing tasks seems pretty huge.