GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    So they’re saying that all these “secret” societies online, like the Peter Thiel psychopathy, are relatively easily identified and rounded up and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and they’re just choosing not to do it? I’m shocked.

    • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      A genz hacker. In a world where “hacking” is writing prompts and calling IT help desks.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 month

        and calling IT help desks.

        It always amazes me how much people shit talk social engineering, when it’s been a power house for hackers since the beginning.

        The human (or I guess AI now) element is always the weakest link

  • TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 month

    It is truly god damn unfortunate that Microsoft has spent decades fostering a level of technical ineptitude among the average person that they cannot even consider getting off their fucking shit ass platform that “just works”. Because that is the real problem. So many people on here will say “just use Linux!” But the vast majority of people cannot fathom where to even start with that and won’t even consider it because Windows “just works” and it has done so for so long that people just can’t be bothered.

      • dindonmasker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1 month

        I talked with the women i’m working with where we print our price lists about changing from adobe to something else and she told me it would be a bad idea since it would make both of our work much more buggy and time consuming with more chances of the end result being worse. So i’ll keep using indesing and the adobe suite for now but i did switch from sketchup to blender for 3D modeling and it’s a bit challenging and more messy then i’m used to but i get better rendering results from what i tried so far.

        • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
          1 month

          As long as you can export to the same format, it shouldn’t matter from the print shop’s perspective, no? They just see the same file they would’ve always seen.

          • dindonmasker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1 month

            The way we work together is by exchanging full fresh indesing pakages that contain the main indd, the idml, a pdf, the links folder and the fonts folder so that we always have everything we need.

            • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
              1 month

              Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don’t know anything about graphics design, just about the technology behind it.

              Why do you send all these things as separate files? Is just a rasterised or vector export of the project not enough?

              Sounds like the design world really needs a standardised container format that can contain all these separate things otherwise.

  • iterable@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 month

    Cant wait for someone to make or reveal they already have a GDID spoofer and can now make grandma look like the worlds number 1 hacker.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    1 month

    uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (…) or virtual machine

    Oh. Even VMs.

    What do I need to change in a VM so that this GDID also changes?

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1 month

      Yeah GDID works the same in a VM as it does on hardware. It’s actually easier to see in action on a VM:

      1. Create a Windows desktop VM
      2. Copy the VM
      3. Create a Window server VM and promote it to being an AD Domain in a new forest
      4. Try to join both copied VMs to the AD Domain. You can’t join the second one because the GDID is the same, and you’ll literally have to do a reset to get a new GDID for your VM

      This was the most annoying part of messing with AD in college was running through the windows setup repeatedly because that’s the only way to get more than one client VM for your virtual Windows network

      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
        1 month

        Create a Window server VM and promote it to being an AD Domain in a new forest4.Try to join both copied VMs to the AD Domai

        LOL I am very, very far away from knowing how to do such extremely windowsy things.

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 month

    The level of naivete to think it’s a good idea using a microsoft account on a microsoft product for your illegal activity is astounding. Especially when you consider the amount of technical knowledge required to do such a thing.

    I legitimately cannot make that connection, Microsoft has never been shy about tracking you or their tight relationship with 3 letter agencies. It doesn’t take a genius to know they are going to snitch, I figured that was a foregone conclusion.

    Kids need to learn about OPSEC.