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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

TBF nVidia and Intel components supposedly had the same sort of capability for many years now: unique device ids.

But yeh, fuck windowsm