A great article on Microsoft's shady GDID, a device fingerprint snuck into Windows 11 that can and has already been used to track with precision, activity reports sent back to the mothership indefinitely.
@JulianOliver @angiebaby Who’s Microsoft, and what’s Windoz?
Seems a bit idiotic for a hacker to be using windows in the first place.
@JulianOliver Raise your hand if you are surprised. Anyone?...Anyone?
@JulianOliver Yet another good reason to switch to Linux.
@JulianOliver Not just Windows 11 - server editions also. Make sure to disable telemetry via group policy if you manage servers that require privacy. Spyware servers are not safe for hosting protected information.
I've always been wary of their cloud platform also, in its entirety. Microsoft is a malware company.
@zazzoo Good advice, for someone else! I dropped windows entirely for GNU/Linux in the year 2K. My first server was that same year. I've not run it since.
@JulianOliver For sure! Sadly, those of us that manage platforms often have the OS chosen for us by the client. <sigh>
@zazzoo I understand, not easy.
In our case, the server deployments we do are most often for at-risk orgs and groups, and so Windows is out of the question anyway. We would not take the client if they insisted; we would not be able to help them.
@JulianOliver We all know exactly where this is going:
@nyc Unfortunately that seems true.
@JulianOliver They cannot resist milking you for your data, if you're willing or not.
The "having total control" vibe is getting bigger with every iteration of the OS.
And they wonder why many are reluctant to upgrade to Win11 and keep running on Win10 or simply installing Linux instead of upgrading.
@JulianOliver One more reason not to use Windows. There's so much bullshit in it that people don't need.
@JulianOliver The internet is becoming a place full of dark interests.
