GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here’s how it works and how to limit it.
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Microsoft’s records showed that at that exact same minute, a Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page. Three hours later, the same GDID
To me the problem is not some uuid in some file/registry entry. The issue is, that somehow MS knows what webpages you visit??? why is this transferred? full log of what you do? edge? firefox? system service reporting outgoing IP connections? WTF.
Precisely.
Many Linux distributions generate a machine-id that’s stored on disk, which local programs can read. But it’s generated locally, and it’s not transmitted to websites. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html
What’s astonishing is a hacker using Windows 11
Probably just a script-kiddie.
I’m happy that SteamOS covers my gaming wants and MacOS covers my professional needs. Every time I had to interact with Windows in the last 5 years I am dumbfounded at the amount of bad UI/UX decisions and bloat.
You should not count on MacOS being any better than Windows in privacy sense.
While I agree that MacOS and Apple have their own share of issues, and while MacOS is far from perfect, I do believe that it is better in privacy matters.
Well fuck that
