▲ 523 ▼ GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 133 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] xia@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) cat /etc/machine-id permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago That's a machine ID, GDID is Winblows exclusive. And in my case, I don't use any big tech crap, so I'm sure that, even if they could get it, they can't do shit with my machine ID either. I can always nuke my system, reinstall Fedora, and BOOM! new machine ID. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago That's a machine ID, GDID is Winblows exclusive. And in my case, I don't use any big tech crap, so I'm sure that, even if they could get it, they can't do shit with my machine ID either. I can always nuke my system, reinstall Fedora, and BOOM! new machine ID. permalink fedilink source parent