> There's going to be plenty of other sensitive information in your backups, which if you don't want others to read you would use encryption anyway, in which case the point is rather moot.
This is a bit of a strawman. When you're backing things up, you know what you're backing up and chose to do so. Here you'd be backing up things that you didn't want to, or even worse, things you'd never want to be backed up anyway. If someone gets into my backups, maybe they can see some family photos or financial data...but they wouldn't otherwise be able to see all the porn searches I do in incognito mode. With this, they could potentially access that as well.
I think Windows actually has a built in "Backup Computer" feature, which AFAIK is a complete image backup. Alot of the cloud backup products do entire computer too (like Time Machine does for OSX). The convenience factor of a system backup for a non-technical user (someone who struggles with explorer.exe) is pretty great.
That being said, keylogging is just plain horrible and inexcusable. Passwords, searches, private messages, etc. There's no way we should be cutting them slack on this.
The worst part is, it's crapware like this that steers us towards the walled app store model for PCs... and the loss of freedom that accompanies that.
Every time I hear of stuff like this I gain more respect for Stallman.
This is a bit of a strawman. When you're backing things up, you know what you're backing up and chose to do so. Here you'd be backing up things that you didn't want to, or even worse, things you'd never want to be backed up anyway. If someone gets into my backups, maybe they can see some family photos or financial data...but they wouldn't otherwise be able to see all the porn searches I do in incognito mode. With this, they could potentially access that as well.