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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

If you're really worried about that, just change it every time you boot or something. There's a kernel parameter to change it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    There is not a parameter to automatically change it every time the system boots, that solution doesn’t work for machines that don’t reboot often and it breaks stuff in systemd as volunteered by many people talking about it online and as verified by me two weeks ago when I tried that.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I never said there was. There is however a kernel parameter to change the machine id, which I did say.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.

    My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.

    I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.

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