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Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by exceptione »

vetrom wrote: post #21
LoganDark wrote: post #7

Windows has a hardcoded list of Microsoft domain names that entirely bypass the hosts file. I see nothing about this, so I would assume there is no countermeasure here. Curiously, this approach appears to have been tested as working anyway.

Run say a linux firewall vm with PCI nic passthrough and give the host windows machine a virtio-pci/TAP interface as its network access is one countermeasure off the top of my head I can think of.

Agreed, running it inside a vm is how you would treat any other malware. Why pci passtrough instead of a regular virtio network driver though?

Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by jerhewet »

LoganDark wrote: post #7

Windows has a hardcoded list of Microsoft domain names that entirely bypass the hosts file. I see nothing about this, so I would assume there is no countermeasure here. Curiously, this approach appears to have been tested as working anyway.

Adguard Home running on a Raspberry Pi. Point your router at it for DNS, works like a charm.

Two years now, and it consistently blocks 48% to 54% of all the trash, including _all_ Microsoft domains.

Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by ziiinq »

userbinator wrote: post #15

"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…

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Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by ziiinq »

azalemeth wrote: post #20
userbinator wrote: post #15

"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…

> What causes this obfuscated writing style? Claude without an editor having worked too long on its own project.

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Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by ziiinq »

happosai wrote: post #14
hypfer wrote: post #2

Wouldn't it make more sense to instead use the same GDID on thousands of hosts? Or a random GDID on each read? No GDID sounds like it sticks out a lot more.

Trying to make windows work differently than what Microsoft wants is a losing proposition. It would make more sense just not use windows to begin with.

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Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by cyanydeez »

dvtkrlbs wrote: post #5
cyanydeez wrote: post #4

while it'd be nice for your paranoia to believe this id key is used for surveillance, it's more likely they just use the same type of finger printing that browsers use. There's zero way to onion.route your internet connection information, unless you plan to go nowhere and do nothing. Sure, it's worth to highlight privacy-potential-invasions, but the idea that you'll some how escape notice by changing the gdid is shor…

There is literally court documents showing this was used by surveilling in at least one case. How that is paranoia

yes, atleast one anecdote that someone found it useful; as opposed to all the evidence that your browser can be fingerprinted consistently; your windows machine makes like 500 calls to outside services.

You think they would have been thwarted without the gdid

Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by shimman »

userbinator wrote: post #15

"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…

Thank you for LLMese, that's gold.

Re: Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

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Post by mlinhares »

andersa wrote: post #19
userbinator wrote: post #15

"The mutation path", "the fully lab-validated line. Other accepted builds warn.", "Status can still inspect", "command, verdict, exit code", "device-identity rehydrate sources", "the network gate", "real-shaped PUID"? WTF. That was extremely difficult to read. I'm assuming it's LLMese (I've had less trouble with reading the writing of ESL'ers), but one of the strangest dialects of it I've ever seen. It has the flavou…

I like to call this style of writing "advanced technical claudish"

I use claude and codex to write nearly all my code today but i can't accept using it to write prose. I still handwrite every single document I have to write and have them review and propose changes, i feel like if i can't put my own ideas into words for people (and claude) to work on i've completely lost it.
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