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There is literally court documents showing this was used by surveilling in at least one case. How that is paranoia
by dvtkrlbs 2mo ago
There is literally court documents showing this was used by surveilling in at least one case. How that is paranoia
- dgellow 2mo agoCould you share more context and details?
- amiga386 2mo agohttps://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/ https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disa...
- future10se 2mo agoYou might've missed this recent story where the FBI was able to identify an alleged teenage member of the Scattered Spider hacking group using the Microsoft GDID, and made an arrest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815196 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920338
- dgellow 2mo agoThanks! I did miss it
- 1over137 2mo agohttps://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-gdid-device-identifier-that-cannot-be-disabled-documented-in-fbi-case-filing/ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows...
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- cyanydeez 2mo agoyes, atleast one anecdote that someone found it useful; as opposed to all the evidence that your browser can be fingerprinted consistently; your windows machine makes like 500 calls to outside services. You think they would have been thwarted without the gdid