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submitted 1 week ago* by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.

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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Precisely.

Many Linux distributions generate a machine-id that's stored on disk, which local programs can read. But it's generated locally, and it's not transmitted to websites. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html

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