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If the data can be accessed by the user, it can be accessed programmatically -- no? It's available locally for something malicious to exfiltrate.

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So Rewind expands the "locally malicious software" scenario from "it accesses all my files and it can monitor me going forward" to "it accesses all my files and it can monitor me retroactively for a few months and also going forward"?

That's a little bit worse but not much worse.

It's much worse, because even if you detect the malwar after a few hours it's still enough for it to steal all your past recording.

But to be honest nobody in the malware world cares about your screen unless you're a president or CEO. They will just steal your passwords, and either encrypt your disk or use you as a residential proxy.

It seems a lot worse, even if malware runs for a short time it could have access to so much stuff.

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