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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 doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s 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 “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s 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 there’s 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: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.
As a white queer, some of you other white queers need to unlearn your racism. No, trans women are not the black people of the trans community. Black trans people are the black people of the trans community. PLEASE. Unlearn your racism.
this is officially the 1,111 note in this post!! Keep reblogging! Keep liking! Because I didn’t think it would go so well but if it is it might as well get to as many people as I can!
i found it sorry vid quality is shit but this is technically “lost media” now anyways….do u have any idea the amount of mental damage this does to a little black girl like i remember watching this shit and feeling my stomach drop like and the entire episode every character just kept beating into her that her fro was ridiculous and ugly and stupid looking and she continued to be the punchline until she had it straightened again…..and all i wanted to do was watch a cartoon about girls who could be fairy’s…..like this shit messes up ur mind so bad i literally watched this with a fro out and sat there feeling like i was the one being laughed at…and then winx had the audacity to repeatedly lighten the skin and straighten the hair of the black character for nearly every reboot after that
Artemis: Ooh! Ooh! Can we please keep him?
Apollo: Absolutely not.
Artemis: Oh, so it's fine for you to turn your mortal buddies into flowers and birds, but I can't sneak one little deer onto Olympus?!