More so that they used the same Windows machine where they were signed in with their real personal Microsoft account as the machine they used for their illicit actions.
VPN only masks your source IP, not any of the other identifiers, of which we now know a new one.
Fucking tease.
The deliveritems clan? How does that work?
You’ve got a job waiting for you with Nanotrasen’s finest doctors aboard the illustrious Space Station 13!
It’s a bunch of slapped together simulation systems in a trench coat, slathered in a layer of spessman slime and clown wigs, and shoved in an ancient diy MMO engine from the mid 2000s solely kept alive by this game.
More importantly, you can strap someone to an operating table in medbay, slice off their butt with a scalpel. You can then wear it as a hat.
Alternatively give it to the chef so he can cook a butt burger, or give it to the roboticist who can slap it on a talking roomba that runs around repeating what people say but switching words with “BUTT” (help changeling in BUTT!). People without butts cannot fart emote, and certain illnesses that would cause them to fart instead deal internal damage until they explode in a shower of blood and viscera.
Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because the therapist pointed out correctly that I never grew up feeling this, which is something I’ve never truly acknowledged.
Like I get it logically, but rarely have actually felt it.
Thanks for the reminder friendo.
Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.
The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.
Not the same collection, but there’s https://modarchive.org/ as the largest database/collection of this type of music online in their original file types.
These tracker files tend to be incredibly small, as most are effectively just text files. If you find some of these you like, for instance the OST for Uplink or Deus Ex, they take practically no space. They also serve as little slices of history, as a lot of them have little notes by the original creators in them, often from multiple decades ago.
If you want a player for these file types on Android, it looks like Drake Mod Player is the successor of XMP Player, which no longer works on modern Android.
Edit: Whoops, thought I was editing my comment, not replying to it.
Best we can get is Internet Archive of previous versions of the page if we’re lucky.
Oh 100%.
Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.
And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.
In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.
Yeah, there should at least be the option for the original tracker files.
My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?
So much for data being anonymized. They correlate individual users between multiple, completely unrelated apps.
At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.
A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.
Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.
Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.
Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:
If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?
That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.
If it’s a side project, then by definition I’m doing it for fun or to build certain skills, not as some sort of “product”. Personally, I don’t do “professional” work outside of my job.
But yeah, getting sidetracked is absolutely a classic trap.
At risk of sidetracking more, could you turn the monitoring you’re doing into its own project or something at least re-usable?
If not, I’d either self-host something or just continue using what you’ve made as-is.
So it’s a unique id “stamped” to your Windows install during setup when you sign into a Microsoft account during the OOB setup experience. It gets stored in the machine’s registry, and is used for uniquely identifying your hardware and tying it to a Microsoft account for licensing purposes.
It does not persist between reinstalls, and it is in a known registry location so therefore viewable and editable now that we know it’s there. We don’t yet know the exact effects of editing it, or how exactly they correlated it in this case with the person’s network activity.
I expect we’ll have some mitigation plan in the next few months. Obviously starting with the recommendations in the article.
Completely pulling this from my ass:
At this point it’s probably easier to just go off grid than to try and make Windows “private”.