sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMicrosoft Confirms Windows Has a Global Device ID You Can't Turn Offtech.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down10
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·1 month agoI don’t think anybody should have been surprised since at least XP that Windows assigns your PC a UUID. The surprising betrayal is that it’s leaked (or worse, used intentionally) for purposes other than Windows activation.
I don’t think anybody should have been surprised since at least XP that Windows assigns your PC a UUID. The surprising betrayal is that it’s leaked (or worse, used intentionally) for purposes other than Windows activation.