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the myth of the good tech giant (infosec.pub)
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[–] AbNormalHumanBeing@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

It's about Clippit, which was a mascot that notoriously annoyed MS Office users in the 90s and 2000s. It did not yet collect your data the way everything does now.