What kind of hacker uses windows?
WTF
Well shit.
I have Linux, so I don’t gave that feature either! What am I supposed to do now? I want to be visible everywhere and tracked by everyone, but I had to chose Linux and again I’m left out!
This sucks
I bet you don’t get those aggravating pop ups and ads either.
You’re missing out on the typical PC user experience
Well that’s terrifying,
but not unexpected…
I don’t have a Windows PC
I do.
Though, those socket A boards kinda suck even after a recap. 98 runs great when it boots!
Gotta power cycle the PSU to get it to boot the first time. Tried 3 PSUs before the recap and nothing changed.
That reminds me I want to try Windows 3 in a virtual machine just for fun. See how fast it boots
It always booted fast enough (well as fast as computers were then). It was pretty fucking useless though. Dos was still way more useful and efficient in those days.
True. Mom had a computer with Win 3.11 on it. I played on that thing for hours when I was younger. I played an unauthorized dos Star Trek game a lot.
I played the lights off that 25th anniversary edition one. Even more so when someone got the walkthrough for me off the ol local BBS
I have a Windows PC?
It’s news to me. I gotta get Mint on it.
Without a window, how else can you appreciate your RAM’s obligatory RGB features?
I haven’t since middle of last year.
Your network interface has a permanent ID that follows you
If that’s really a concern, USB or PCIe NICs are always an option as a replacement, whether temporary or permanent. More advanced users can create virtual connections to route traffic through (macvlans) with custom configurable MAC addresses and/or use virtual machines that offer the same feature if a guest OS is preferred or necessary.
The identifier the article is talking about is instead persistent on any Windows OS regardless of hardware, including if the OS is a virtual machine. Using the OS at all on the Internet ensures Microsoft can always track it.
Fuck this OS, left it behind a long time ago and nothing ever will bring me back. This platform should die, they turned everything good about the platform to trash over years.
I have a photo scanner I can’t get to work on Linux Mint, so I have an old laptop with Win10 on it for that single purpose. I haven’t booted it in months, but I do need to get back to that project.
It doesn’t need or get internet access.
Can you run it in a VM?
No luck using xsane?
Court filings in the Scattered Spider hacking case reveal Microsoft provided the FBI with a complete IP history tied to something called a Global Device ID (GDID)
It’s kinda like a MAC address
Does it follow me after Linux install?
Does this only apply to Windows 11 or also to 10? I know the ID even works if you installed Windows on a virtual machine. I’m on Linux, but I have Windows 10 installed for very specific tasks (in example to update firmware of my 8bitdo gamepad and configure its settings, because they suck and don’t provide a Linux tool for this).
