Comment by dvtkrlbs
7 days ago
There is literally court documents showing this was used by surveilling in at least one case. How that is paranoia
7 days ago
There is literally court documents showing this was used by surveilling in at least one case. How that is paranoia
Could you share more context and details?
You 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=48920338
Thanks! I did miss it
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disa...
https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows...
yes, 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