2023 hacking? 19-year-old cyber criminal?

i'm not a math genius, but it sounds like this person was a child at the time.

microsoft, spying on children and tracking them around the internet? creepy!

Which in essence means. Microsoft holds the key to a lot of criminals from child abusers to drug and human trafickers. But the choose to back down here?

Or rather the FBI know it could cat awhile breed of other assholes if they would only care enough.

In best case MS would have never done that in order to protect users but well in this day and age and especially with that Zeitgeist in the US right now, they will certainly not walk back on that GDID.

Even if they EU tries

Meh. Microsoft, like all other big companies, will respond to legal process. Given that Microsoft's recent operating systems basically require you to log in to their cloud at startup, this is not particularly surprising to me.

And if motivated to pursue a threat actor who is actively harming their customers, Microsoft can tell a great deal about users. As can Google, or FB/Meta. I always said that if just two of those companies decided to find someone responsible for something, they probably could if they shared information.

Now replace „cyber criminal“ with „dissident“.

With this level of permanent surveillance western democracies have become a hoax.

This prompted me to have a very nerdy project morning on my Nobara PC. I don't do the criminal stuff this kid did, but like hell I'm going to assume that this isn't being abused.

So I randomed my machine ID, randomed my MAC address, setup a cron to clear old journal files that don't match my current machine ID, got SSH recovery setup in case I nuked my plasma shell, and everything is running so far.

Nobara Linux.