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by aftbit 13 days ago
Which is also well documented and trivially rotatable by anyone with root on the machine. How do you rotate the MS identifier?
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ranger_danger 13 days ago
https://github.com/gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer

> well documented and trivially rotatable

Yes, but almost nobody does that or complains about it at all, even though applications may have been silently phoning it home for many years now.

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gruez 13 days ago
>https://github.com/gd03gd031/Windows-GDID-Changer

sounds like you can rotate it, but it doesn't really matter because the registration/rotation process sends a bunch of static information to microsoft, which means they can re-correlate the the old id back to the new id.

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ranger_danger 10 days ago
Surely the sending of the GDID to MS can be blocked?
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aftbit 10 days ago
Which applications do this?
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