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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why is there never any more detail how the GDID is then used to collect information?

The complaint says Microsoft had records showing that on May 12, 2025, at 19:21 UTC, the GDID associated with Stokes’ computer “accessed, among other ngrok pages, 'https://dashboard[.]ngrok.com/signup,' the ngrok page to set up an ngrok account.”

How do the records show a GDID in connection to the website?

[–] cm0002@lemdro.id 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Iirc other articles were specifying he was also using Edge AND had edge cloud sync or w/e enabled

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

hacker

Uh huh