Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnāt care which VPN you use, only that itās still the same Windows installation.
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.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows āsurveillance softwareā.
Two things back that up:
Thereās no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleās advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidās works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereās activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: āItās impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].ā Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
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This is such a comparatively small complaint with everything else tech wise but damn it sucks how much worse autocorrect/spellcheck has gotten in the past few years.
Itās really seemed to shunk in quality over the past six months or so. Part of it may be because my writing style has been described asā¦ old fashioned, (Iām a classic literature nerd,) and lately Iāve been dealing with a lot of situations that require a more modern style, but still.
No, it's gotten noticeably worse as of late. Even voice-to-text is noticeably worse. Adding punctuation where it thinks you've ended the sentence, capitalizing words it thinks are Brands or Last Names. Not being able to handle even my slight accent (can't imagine how much worse it is for other people), and perhaps most infuriatingly, no longer being able to process words like "stop" or "dot" because it thinks I want it to put a period in the middle of a sentence.
Spellcheck, autocorrect, and the latency in the keyboard are really shitty and it's because AI takes so much processing power and is still riddled with errors. It's why predictive text is a wash too. It doesn't even predict the grammatically correct option like it once did, nor does it retain frequently used lingo.
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