There’s a very easy trick to defeat this: use Linux.
If that hacker only knew about tracking by Windows…
So they’re saying that all these “secret” societies online, like the Peter Thiel psychopathy, are relatively easily identified and rounded up and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and they’re just choosing not to do it? I’m shocked.
The level of naivete to think it’s a good idea using a microsoft account on a microsoft product for your illegal activity is astounding. Especially when you consider the amount of technical knowledge required to do such a thing.
I legitimately cannot make that connection, Microsoft has never been shy about tracking you or their tight relationship with 3 letter agencies. It doesn’t take a genius to know they are going to snitch, I figured that was a foregone conclusion.
Kids need to learn about OPSEC.
Yeah. What a moron.
Then why haven’t we heard about all the criminals (pedophiles, terrorists,…) being caught by Microsoft surveillance? Because they don’t care about the crimes you do. Their tracking is for money making only.
If I were a criminal I would not bank on it - they might use it for blackmail, too - but for the most part they are not in danger.
The current federal government is pedophiles, they aren’t going to arrest themselves.
Because you aren’t looking they take down people and groups all the time, it’s not their job to prosecute
I was gonna comment something about Linux distro also having a machine ID, but then I remembered that it’s not in a big database, and it’s so well enforced I routinely have multiple machines with the same ID pop up :D
Linux users will probably tell you their id if you ask them nicely and seem interested in their distro of choice.
Microsoft fucked their customers for the #69514026th time, will it be enough to make people switch to Linux, or do they just like being fucked? Who knows.
I downloaded this program called “Driver Easy,” which scans my hardware, searches automatically for driver updates, downloads and installs them for me. If I could download a wizard that got rid of windows, installed a nice user-friendly version of linux, while keeping my old programs, files and junk… I’d do it in a heartbeat. All I want to do is play my video games from Steam, download shit to watch, browse the internet, write in Libreoffice… Can I do all those things with Linux? Can I download some install wizard to switch?
If that wizard existed, a shit ton of people would switch. It’s just the idea of deleting my current OS and putting in a new one makes me thing I’m gonna brick my machine.
It’s always a good idea to back up your important files before a big change like switching operating systems, and your old software won’t work. But drivers haven’t been an issue for me in years. Mint is probably a super easy distribution for the switch. You can load it on a USB and give it a try before committing to the full install.
Don’t delete your OS then. Just buy a small SSD to put Linux on and go from there.
Identifier. Not tracker. They’re not phoning home, thank god.
Ugh… How do you think they correlated the GDID to his social media?
It mentions this GDID is sent in telemetry. So this guy kept using a hosted proxy, meaning his egress IP was always changing accessing different services, but everytime his Windows 11 machine was sending back telemetry (which included his GDID) they were logging the IP address he was appearing from (the proxy) - so they were able to track and identify him.
I do absolutely nothing illegal on my windows 11 machine. I save the fun torrenting for my Mac. And soon I’ll have a Linux device set up.
Its doesn’t have a off switch but you can generate a new one.
Elaborate, Please…
I don’t remember the command but it was easy to find. There are a couple of ways to do it. I used a scheduled power shell script for the persons computer I did it for. They used it to avoid a annoying set of trackers that kept her from getting the lowest price on some equipment website. That was in 2020 or 2021.
Edit: I was mistaken about what generated ID I was talking about. You can however change GDID but it will force microsoft to reregister the installation so I don’t know how many times you could do it before microsoft refuses to do it again
He’ so stupid for sending ransomware and logging into snapchat/facebook from the same laptop without even using VMs
arguably more stupid for using windows and assuming there was any level of privacy
BTW
Ctrl-f NSAKEY (sees nothing) — it seems the internet has forgotten the NSAKEY debacle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (…) or virtual machine
Oh. Even VMs.
What do I need to change in a VM so that this GDID also changes?
Apparently it requires a Microsoft account to work, so local-only accounts are safe (in the case of patched windows ISOs). But this only disabled GDID and there’s still no guarantee that there aren’t other idenfiers.
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It’s worth pointing out that this goofball was hunted down by Allison Nixon.
