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cm0002@lemdro.id to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 1 day ago

A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

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The FBI used a Microsoft device identifier, dubbed GDID, to link a teenager to a hack attributed to Scattered Spider, raising privacy red flags about Windows' surveillance capabilities.
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    Iirc other articles were specifying he was also using Edge AND had edge cloud sync or w/e enabled

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      hacker

      Uh huh

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