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Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN (archive.is)

submitted 3 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Except the MAC address isn't propagated through gateways, only on your local network(because that is their job).

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