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I just … of all the shit that MS has pulled throughout the years. This is just spectacularly bad.
Remember when voice activation left a loophole for hackers to just do stuff by talking to the OS through the speakers?
You could say that that was a “silly oopsi”.
But this is … like that uncle who got way too drunk at the family party and ended up streaking the backyard with fireworks in his hands, … buknaked.