>>microsoft has a global ID system
So?
>>tracks you across vpns and countries
You bought it
>>hands it to the feds
They have to if you use their services and the feds ask for it
>>linus is freaking the fuck out
So?

Oh and there isnt an off switch.
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

>Yes do as I say
I'm sure he'll leave Windows 4 real this time!

>>109329362
It's over bro. If they managed to catch a hacker over a VPN and 3 proxies, I'm done, nigga. It feels so fucking nasty that every keystroke is logged, this fucking GDID is tied to my IP, my WinKey and my ms email. Even if you use a VPN windows will always see your real IP. This is so fucking disgusting. And when this whole AI bullshit evolves even more they can actively see the shit on your screen (like recall) and then have your local NPU summarize it and send it back to the MS servers and report it to palantir and your local authorities.

I hate technology. We all need a thinkpad with Linux and a PlayStation 2.

>>109329394
why are you like this? Why are you so fucking stupid?

>>109329362
>clickbait
linus is never leaving windows

>>109329400
What do you want? I don't get your question, try asking polite next time.

It's over bro and all those LTSC copers will burn in hell. I remember /g/ laughing at me, because I installed win11 pro and debloated it, instead of LTSC. Heh who is laughing now? They just read your HWID and tie it to your new GDID and exactly know that it's you. I wonder how many idiots actually use qbittorrent or watch porn on their windows computers

>>109329426
>>109329385
Give him a break he said Maybe

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>more public-private partnerships
it never works, it's always to the detriment of the people. it brings out the worst in both government and corporations.

>>109329433
he's said maybe 100s of times to bait (You)
you have to get desensitized to it at some point

>>109329362
>hands out bitlocker keys
BasedOS

>>109329394
I agree with you my friend. You cant do hacker moves online anymore. The feds will come to your front door if they see you talking about corruption online.

>>109329362
the best time to leave windows was 5 years ago.
the next best time is now.

I remember when intel put that unique ID instruction in the CPUs. Slashdot were losing their shit. Dire predictions of what would happen if all the closed source browsers of the day just started handing it to anyone who requested it with no option to disable it. In the end the fuss that was kicked up WORKED. Intel had to address the controversy, browsers had to not provide any mechanism to get at it and in the end it became a fancy asset tracking tag for corpos.
GDID is that but with stealth. It's already in place and Microsoft already have your machine IDs logged because it just phones home with your unique machine ID every time it has telemetry to send back to the mothership. And if you ever signed in to a microsoft account in edge, you bet it sent that ID with it even if you think your local account protects you. And even if you haven't, you think Microsoft aren't smart enough to say "we saw a GDID from 10.11.12.14, and then shortly afterwards a signin from the same IP, we'll just add that GDID to that account with a certainty of 90%."

>>109329461
Holy fuck we actually need schizos like you. I didn't think about that. This is fucking scary and I never heard about the Intel shit. Your browser example sounds horrifying. A VPN is pointless, if Microsoft will just hand out "your I'D" to anyone who requests it. Or imagine Apps will require that for "anti bot" or "security". Am App like discord could request that ID and check if you were ever banned. This is literally 1945 and everyone is brand marked

uh oh what is our response pc goymers?

>>109329362
>normies are finding out about GDID and suddenly care
That """hacker""" that got busted was a complete retard, what kind of genuine monkey brained fucking dipshit uses WINDOWS for illegal shit? Even fucking MAC would have been a better choice, at least Apple have some history of resisting feds to a reasonable degree (at least in public). Microslop just open their cheeks whenever the feds even look in their direction.
Its like wearing a mask with your real name and pictures of your face printed all over it. Genuine madness, windows has this for a long time hasn't it?

If you use Windows after MS tried to push Recall you deseve to be farmed like cattle. It doesn't matter that it wouldn't work on x86, the idea that a company if comfortable with pushing that idea at all is so beyond dystopian anyone with a shred of integrity should have left by now.

>>109329362
>zoomers find out that GDID exists
kek, i congratulate glowies for somehow managing to memoryhole it this long, because it was a huge scandal when Microsoft started doing it... and seemingly people simply forgot.
Just wait till they find out that Cloudflare terminates SSL!
Or till they realize that glowies control root CAs, so https isn't protected against MitM attacks at all!
Or till they realize that session cookies can be grabbed and that you shouldn't check the "keep me logged in" box!

>>109329369
>You bought it
The customer is a strange kind of powerful person. His power is rather unlike all other kinds of power, but the antithesis.

>>109329435
>has been accused of being on every quadrant of the political axis at least once
nobody would accuse a nooticer of being libertarian, THOUGH

>>109329461
>local account protects you.
What about using in a VM? There are still something that I can only do on Wins.

>>109329461
>>109329602
>>109329605
Retard here, what can I realistically do? Can I remove all that crap with scripts? (Can't switch to Linux I have an nvidia GPU)

>>109329605
>you shouldn't check the "keep me logged in" box!
It's fine as long is nothing important, also wouldn't 2FA prevent this?

>>109329650
nvidia GPUs work fine on Linux, theres no hope of actually fixing M$ telemetry with scripts and such.

Just try out Linux Mint, its extremely simple and does a lot to stop you fucking things up

>>109329362
>outrage grifter grifts about fake outrage
he really is of a kind to the fat greying boomer (steve?) who sees conspiracy everywhere, huh

>>109329362
Eastern Europoor here, does this apply to pirated versions as well?

>>109329661
>wouldn't 2FA prevent this
No it doesn't.
Getting your session cookie stolen bypasses all authentication methods. You could use a Yubikey to log into Google, and still get your account stolen by an infostealer grabbing the cookie.

And it's actually most common cause of accounts being stolen. LTT got their youtube account stolen in that way.
(((They))) just don't tell you, because they do not want you to log out. Of course Google wants you to have the cookie at all times. Google isn't going to tell you to delete it, lol, nor are they going to make it easy. Many platforms don't even give you the choice anymore, they are logged-in always per default.

Back then, during the time of Internet Cafes, everybody knew this.

>>109329650
>Can't switch to Linux I have an nvidia GPU
Huh? Nvidia works with no issues on linux
The only thing that doesn’t compared to amd is partial gpu passthrough, which isn’t something average consoomer will ever need

>>109329362
This is on Windows 10 too right? And how would using a Microsoft account to play Halo MCC on Steam and Minecraft with your common username not have the same effect? I would be unsurprised if everything is not fingerprinted now.

>>109329718
Of course it’s fingerprinted but modern g is full of know nothing cattle eho is surprised that (gasp!) a surveillance corp like microsoft is indeed surveilling people. Oh they upload all your documents to onedrive? Nothing to see. Recall screenshots your desktop every few minutes? Yea that’s just to help you, well, recall things! Pushing mandatory online activation? Yep makes sense.
But a fucking device id? No way fag THIS is hard proof!

>>109329643
If you give the VM access to the internet and sign in to any microsoft services (even not on the VM) you are just going down the same path. You have to keep the VM locked down otherwise it'll just functionally be identical to a native install of windows. I'm guessing the windows programs you have to use are cloud enabled shit so you can't just disable the VM's network?

>>109329426
Linus is a manlet, luke is the real adult in the room.

>>109329718
Obviously there's layers and layers of trackers and multiple sources of information. The big deal is that this is a globally unique identifier that follows you that microsoft has already given up to the feds, so it's not theoretical. We were fine with the idea that SOME of what we do is tracked, and the feds knowing that you played MCC on Thursday and Minecraft on Friday is not a scary prospect. But connecting to a VPN to access secure shit and then later finding out Microsoft goes "oh shit, a VPN, better log it against your unique identifier" that's a serious fucking problem. "Just don't sign in on the VPN bro" is no protection anymore.

when is this faggot gonna get rid of the braces? and why get braces at 50 years old when you're a millionaire with an asian wife and kids? Is he planning on leaving her? with all that money and fame he doesn't even need straight teeth. I juist don't fucking get it

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>>109329362
anyone else kind of sick of this performative outrage farming
he isn't leaving windows
99% of regular people could not give less of a shit

>>109329770
Nigger how did you expect an os setup from microsoft to not be identifiable

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>>109329362
not trying to be the "heh, I knew all along" guy but this just seems intuitive to me

>>109329773
Braces in adult age, for an extended period of time, fuck over your gum, you get periodontal disease, eventually the jaw bone regresses and you lose teeth. That's why it's usually done with teens, where the gum can take a beating and still recover.

You think you will be getting straight teeth and in the end end up losing them.

>>109329369
>They have to if you use their services and the feds ask for it

this is an inherent flaw of the "product-as-a-service" business model: if everything was on a user's local device and the company providing software had no access, or at least anonymized access (for updates), then they couldn't be forced at gunpoint by glowies to give backdoor access without having the legal defense of saying "a backdoor for one is a backdoor for all" which actually did hold up for apple back when they had their customer's best interest in mind.

your only other option would be to have a service based in a non 14-eyes country, non-russia, and non-china which is very hard

>>109329776
him and luke usually do this to encourage the audience to try linux

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>>109329696
Same I think. I mean pirated just means you put in the script to activate it right? I mean you can download windows from Microsoft for free.
If you have a TPM chip it will make use of it.
>>109329362
It's funny how the one Linux he says he actually dailies and is happy with is SteamOS. Like he needs there to be a Corp. to feel safe after all so he happily uses an OS not intended for the hardware with an old version of KDE and all...
I don't get why he never went for Fedora KDE. Should be totally his thing

>>109329369
you can't track it (for convenience purposes) but they can (they didn't buy it btw)
guess it's nothing if you're mentally cattle already

>>109329773
>Is he planning on leaving her?
probably not but i suspect they do have an open relationship that they keep quiet publicly about. linus has multiple trannies in his dms and has confirmed it on the wan show, he's almost certainly fucking trannies on the side.

>>109329362
What's the point of wearing headphones? To silence his critics?

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>>109329758
>Luke
>IS THIS A GDPR VIOLATION!?!?!?!

yes everyone knows this

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macOS wins again

>>109330147
need a reminder about the server it needs to ping to know if you can even launch an app?

>>109330172
it doesn't matter when it just werks

>>109329362
I suspect cloudflare has been doing this longer. I got a computer from a foreign country, it was sold as something that was broken, there was nothing wrong with it other than the reseller not having it's proprietary psu. It had a fresh install of windows with the oobe at startup. When I got online it immediately bombarded me with heaps of those gay captcha shits to verify I wasn't a robot. Never had that experience before, so I can only assume cloudflare is saving hardware identifiers everytime an unrecognized MAC or TPM is detected in traffic.

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>>109330173
>javashitbotnetOS
>work

>>109330173
sure works lol https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/what-happened-to-my-mac-apples-ocsp-apocalypse/

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>freetard FUD grifter
not clicking

>>109329362
No Refunds!

>>109329362
>>109329369
>>109329375
>>109329385
THIS WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE TPM REQUIREMENT. WHAT DID YOU RETARDS THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?

>>109329362
this was obvious. i have installed windows 10 many times
when i go to the microsoft store in one of the tabs it shows app that i used to have installed when i used windows 10 home many years ago

>>109330173
No it fucking doesn't. If your network is slow and you run unsigned apps exec gets slow.

God damn all the fags in California.

>>109330197
ask your llm what apple ocsp is lol

>>109330197
/thread

>>109329362
Linus is such a weak faggot. The fact hes been such a window fag for years just proves hes a little boy.

>>109329362
>microsoft has a global ID system
all companies make shadow profiles including google and facebook. nothing new
>linus
download ytblock already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

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>>109330210
Every breath you take
www.inverse.com/article/16929-apple-watch-will-now-remind-ou-to-breathe
Every move you make
www.stopspying.org/latest-news/2021/10/1/stop-condemns-apple-for-tracking-iphone-location-when-turned-off
Every bond you break
acecilia.medium.com/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-their-servers-for-every-piece-of-software-you-run-on-your-mac-b0bb509eee65
Every step you take
www.komando.com/security-privacy/secret-map-tracking-apple/465598
I'll be watching you
archive.is/2024.10.10-000653/https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance

Every single day
https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now
Every word you say
www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apples-siri-is-eavesdropping-on-your-conversations-putting-users-at-risk
Every game you play
techstory.in/apple-slammed-by-epic-games-chief-for-spyware-tools
Every night you stay
www.thehackernews.com/2017/10/iphone-camera-spying.html
I'll be watching you
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/11/apple-sued-for-pervasive-and-unlawful-data-tracking

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
truthout.org/articles/apple-employee-blows-whistle-on-illegal-spying-and-toxic-working-conditions
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take
nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/08/13/siri-is-listening-to-you-but-shes-not-spying-says-apple
Every move you make
gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gathering
Every vow you break
appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/29/apple-acknowledges-tracking-imessage-metadata-and-sharing-it-with-law-enforcement
Evry smile you fake
abc4.com/news/tech-social-media/yes-your-iphone-is-taking-invisible-pictures-of-you
Every claim you stake
wonderfulengineering.com/u-s-apple-store-employees-are-working-to-unionize-and-theyre-using-android-phones-to-keep-apple-from-spying-on-them
I'll be watching you
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours

>>109329650
Run mac os like anyone with half a brain has been doing for the past 5 years.

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>>109330237
>Run mac os like anyone with half a brain has been doing for the past 5 years.
This exactly. Only lobotomized retards with half of a brain use your botnet saarjeetOS.
Anyone with a whole brain installs gentoo.

>>109329428
So you moved from a north korean village to another north korean village to avoid getting tracked?????
What is this retardation???

FreeBSD / Unix-like systems
>none

macOS IOPlatformUUID / Hardware UUID
>introduced in Mac OS X early 2000s

iOS / iPadOS UDID
>introduced in 2007 (original iPhone)

Android ANDROID_ID
>introduced in Android 1.5 (2009)

Linux (systemd distros) /etc/machine-id
>intrdoced in systemd in 2010

ChromeOS Device/Enrollment ID
>introduced in ChromeOS 2011

>total silence for decades from freetard FUD grifters

Windows GDID (Global Device Identifier)
>introduced in after Windows 10 released (2015+)
>OmG mS iS lE sPyiNg!111

entire thread is nothing but larping virtue signalers all

>>109329461
>GDID is that but with stealth. It's already in place and Microsoft already have your machine IDs logged because it just phones home with your unique machine ID every time it has telemetry to send back to the mothership. And if you ever signed in to a microsoft account in edge, you bet it sent that ID with it even if you think your local account protects you. And even if you haven't, you think Microsoft aren't smart enough to say "we saw a GDID from 10.11.12.14, and then shortly afterwards a signin from the same IP, we'll just add that GDID to that account with a certainty of 90%."
Why do people even make microjeet accounts though? There is no advantage to it, microjeet software and services suck.
Also also
>edge
wut.

A lot of hand-wringing when the solution was split-tunnelling and only using the proxy for your important traffic while continuing to let windows telemetry phone home over the ISP IP address.

>>109329650
>(Can't switch to Linux I have an nvidia GPU)
absolute fucking neanderthal brain lmfao

>>109330274
Does linux even have a server to collect these machine ids? Windows with a local account isn't a problem so i imagine this isn't a problem for linux either.

>>109329362
what's the news?
you can't be that ignorant about windows

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>be me
>tell people that "privacy" is a binary choice
>you either do and adhere to best-known practices 100% of the time
>or you do nothing as every half measure equates to 0
>/g/ always calls me bad names
>says i'm wrong
>turns out im right

>>109330477
>just always fight your tools bro

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>>109330569
this
also this >>109329962
not a single virtue signaling faggot ITT gives a shit about privacy

>>109330595
Look, if you're a wannabe hacker, the bar to clear is "perfect" or you're at risk of getting caught. That includes perfect against future techniques that may allow for reinterpreting past data.
This is what you're signing up for. Don't be a pussy if you want to play the game.

>>109329362
If you are not pirating W11 pro and reinstalling it once a year and use MS account at all, then it's on you
>t. Linux User

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>>109329362
>that sounds like its against the GDPR!
I hate those idiots so much, it's unreal. Even when they are dangerously close to making a valid point, they always throw some government-worship in between.

>>109329362
Install LTSC without a MS account and you don't get this. This is only for loyal customers and cuckolds. Another reason to never follow the rules

>>109330945
pretty sure LTSC has GDIDs as well

>>109329362

Linux keeps yapping about ditching windows, but like a battered housewife in an abusive relationship, he always comes crawling back. Why can't he set an example for the normies that watch him, like Pewdiepie did?

Linus is a rat. I dont care for him. Windows is still shit though.

>>109329805
at least luke is actually maining linux and not just virtue signaling for brownie points

>>109330600
this kills the lintroon

So the MacBook Neo next year with the A19 chip is the play?
I hope Satania can forgive me

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>>109331499
crapple is the biggest currynigger botnet in history >>109330223

>>109330197
difference is the feds can ring up Microsoft and they'll gladly give out your GDID and what you did where and when online
whereas the feds can't call up Linus Torvalds or Red Hat and ask for your machine-id

>>109331517
This Earth of ours is truly a prison planet

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>>109331535
they don't need to
you post on 4chan so your exact address is tied to every post you virtue signaling nigger
go 43% lintroon, you have never even for a nanosecond cared about privacy, you're just a manchild loser living in your granny's basement waging your fantard war against a corporation that doesnt even know you exist

>>109331554
lotta bad words there for not a lotta substance, buster

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>>109331589
>I tOtAlLy CaRe AbOuT pRiVaCy
>said the freetard posting on 4chan

>>109331273
I checked mine and the Variable is non existant in the registry. Just use an activation script and never use a microsoft account

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Faggot larper child entertainer who couldn't even use linux

>>109331609
he got 5,000,000 freetard NPCs with 50IQ to religiously watch his ragebait videos and give him attention and money daily
he won

>>109329802
pirate here who downloads LTSC from torrents - i believe you are describing how i use Windows lol. Although i am switching to linux so i find it funny that even if torrented windows is worse than linux.

>>109329394
use old windows lol. this is literally fixable by not having a system with updates enabled.

>>109331627
muh pirate here

can you stop talking like a fag redditor

>>109331596
you sound pretty upset

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>>109331675
>I tOtAlLy CaRe AbOuT pRiVaCy
>said the freetard posting on 4chan

>GDID has been around since Windows 10 almost 9 years ago
>People using the operating system as usual
>Suddenly a criminal gets caught
>OMG I MIGHT NEXT
Well, don't commit crime, retard.

Still blows my mind how many people remain on windows despite everything

>>109331709
>if you don't care 100% about something and dedicate all your actions to it, you don't care about it all
What kind of bizarre black and white thinking is this?

>>109332568
Because the alternatives are just worse.
>iOS
Everything costs money and is designed for women or old people
>linux
Even tech nerds that love digital erector sets outline how they regularly have to spend hours fixing simple shit that shouldn't be a problem like bluetooth, printers, wifi, or using an incredibly common piece of software.

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>>109329362
Ok this is it.
Of course most shit was obvious and I haven't used windows for years.
But I always had a bad feeling and thought i might have to give in when it comes to cagie, but fuck no. I will not take a job that forces me to use windows. Fuck them. Not doing it.
Yes, this will reduce the available jobs from non-existant to non-existant, but i dont give a shit at this point.

>>109332652
>designed for women or old people
he said i'm a woman guys
>bluetooth,wifi
you can fuck this up only if you're retard

>>109329602
>>109329650
He got busted because he posted his crimes on social fucking media retard, not because he used le doubleplusungood operating system.

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>>109330223
There'll be a bill to pay

On that judgement day

>>109329650
Just use multiple computers. Keep the nVidia for your Windows box, then use Linux on a different PC where discretion is required.

>>109330883
>soijak poster
>too stupid to understand how governmental laws can be used to shut this sort of thing down while whining on the internet cannot
Pottery.

>>109330274
>Linux (systemd distros) /etc/machine-id
>intrdoced in systemd in 2010
this is wrong you dunning-kruger retard
machine-id predates systemd by a decade, and it's literally just a txt file you can delete

>>109329362
You use a stock Android phone all your life with a phone number with your name attached to it while the device has an IMEI. This information is passed to your carrier and Google and thus the government and is profiling you 24/7. You don't actually care, you just pretend to be outraged while you continue to be spied on like the future prisoner or mass grave occupant you are.

>>109330540
>Windows with a local account isn't a problem
Yet you used HWID activation and the machine contacts Microsoft servers with encrypted traffic. What do you think that means?

>>109330600
All of these guys look identical, wtf.
>who lives with his mom
Are there any boomers who don't live with their parents house? Americans are weird.

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>>109333039
>whataboutism

>>109331554
>you post on 4chan so your exact address is tied to every post
How does that make any sense? Phone posting on cellular? Static IP while someone reports the post for violating US law? Feds running the site and screening posts with AI? What happened here?

>>109333092
You can't dismiss this hypocrisy. If you actually cared you wouldn't carry an Android or IOS device with you.

>>109329362
>>109330274
Is this way Windows and Linux fags cry so much about Win7 and why there is so much fake fearmongering about muh security.

>>109329605
he was also loging into facebook using very that machine

>>109330485
and this is why Linux will never take off even when windows is literally face fucking its users.

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>>109329362
MICROSLOP TODDLERS BTFO

Can someone explain why as a kid, a I could extract multiple-part zip files by simply clicking extract on the first one and it would do them all, but now I have to extract each zip file manually and then manually merger the folders together?? The only thing I can think of, is that Microsoft want to make piracy harder because some people pirate stuff via zip files, but why the fuck does 7zip not let me do it?

>>109329518
Windows 10 21H2 LTSC IoT

>>109333352
not the baby duck answer twin im crine

>>109330202
BUT THEY PROMISED AND SAID THEY WOULDNT USE THE TPM LIKE THIS

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>GDID (Goyim Device ID)
Topkek

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>>109329362

>>109335074
>>109335296
Zased

>>109330569
okay anon then how to do those privacy practices and what would they be?

>>109329650
>Can't switch to Linux
You are, indeed, retarded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_slavery

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>mfw freetards on /g/ have stooped so low they are regurgitating Linus Sebastian regurgitating "GDID" headlines and going onto an emotional shitflinging fest without thinking for themselves for one second
Picrel is 19 y/o Peter Stokes, the guy who initiated this whole shitfest of journoshittery. This absolute retard was committing extortion cybercrimes while openly bragging about them online. He was essentially giving himself to the feds. Only after they clapped down on his shit did they get their hands on their hardware.

As it turns out, this titan of intellect, the fighter for software freedoms that not a single freetard regurgitating these headlines (you can forget about them reading the fucking articles lol), had absolutely ZERO opsec. Doing cybercrimes from Windows is one thing.

He:
-used his Microsoft account
-didn't bother with any memescripts
-zero hardening whatsoever
-he did his personal browsing on the same machine he used to extort businesses
-using Microsoft Edge with all of it's default telemetry
After the feds hit up MS, the only role GDID has was to cross-reference the anonymized telemetry data with Stokes. Here's the kicker: if he did as little as installed Firefox instead of using Edge, the GDID cross-referencing wouldn't help the feds out, and even then they already had him cooked cuz dude was this retarded.

Of course all the freetards will just call me a paid pajeet Microsoft shill or whatever their canned response to being proven wrong is nowadays, but remember that whenever they bring up GDID, they are exposing themselves as ignorant Dunning-Kruger retards that blindly believe in journoscum headlines if it benefits their worldview. Lowest form of cattle imaginable.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

>>109335320
That's the kicker, best practice privacy policy is don't take 1 word for law. You have to actually DYOR and seek. It has a lot of friction which is why plebs get sold VPN half measures that do nothing.

>>109329362
The feds rarely disclose how they actually catch people on the net. They usually use some BS excuse to cover and use other evidence they find after they seize hardware to convict. There was probably more to the story on how they caught the guy too.

Just like those secret National Security Letter's the FBI sends to service providers demanding info, they were probably trying their best to keep the use of GD-IN on the DL as long as possible. I bet they even used one of those NSL's to get Microsoft to hand over the GD-IN to circumnavigate the warrant process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

>>109335654
Classic Feds making it sound like they caught a big fish.

>>109335654
Why would scripts or hardening matter when you're using an OS that is fundamentally a botnet?

>>109329375
Some micoper will give you a dozen powershell commands and registry edits that he thinks will disable it (for real this time!)

>>109333302
1. /sqt/
2. Windows could never do that
3. 7Zip can, your files aren't named properly
4. WinRAR

>>109332652
>regularly have to spend hours fixing simple shit
Just get a cozy suburbs distro instead of an autistic cabin-in-the-middle-of-the-fucking-woods distro. Those nerds are spending hours fixing things because they want to

>>109329962
this

>>109330274
this kills the freetard NPC

>>109329362
>>109329375
Is this somehow surprising? The entire OS is literal spyware. Windowsbabbies cope by saying they can turn it off, but there's too much of it to actually turn off.

>>109330274
this enrages and confuses the freetard NPC