Hacker
Uses windows
He got what he fucking deserved
Year of the Linux desktop anyone?
The same user posted a thread in this comm about the Linux equivalent, device-id, which is possibly more problematic.
Seems like the answer is never. The masses are too addicted to PC games to give it up.
I have tried over and over for 30 years now and every time I discover something is missing, something I’m not willing to give up. Today it was Google Drive. There are multiple solutions for Linux to mount Google Drive as a folder in the local filtersystem, none of them offer decent performance compared to the windows client. Every time I try Linux something like this comes up.
could you elaborate on what you mean by “performance” of cloud storage? the speed of upload, download?
The time it takes to open and list a directory using Nautilus in GNOME desktop. It can take 5-10 seconds with a directory of 5 files, a lot longer if there are 50 files in a directory. And all the “solutions” I find on the web involve some kind of guesswork and tweaking settings left and right, hoping to somehow hit a magic combination that works.
ELI5?
Imagine your computer has a secret ID number that Microsoft gives it when you sign in with your Microsoft account. This number is like a permanent nametag that your computer wears. Even if you use a VPN to hide your location, that nametag stays the same.
A hacker used a VPN to hide while breaking into a jewelry store’s computer system. But Microsoft helped the FBI find him because his computer’s secret nametag kept showing up everywhere he went online. They matched that nametag to his social media accounts and other stuff he did, and that’s how they caught him. Most people didn’t even know this secret nametag existed, and you can’t turn it off without breaking your computer.
how dumb can you be to use unhardened windows to hack valuable shit omg.
even if you didn’t know of this system (i didn’t) it’s well known windows scans for even the color of your underwear.
also to login with edge on top of that
the average lemmy user is much more tech literate than an average person
people really don’t know that kind of stuff. to many a computer is a computer, it has internet, and plays games… what’s an operating system?
damn, but even hackers capable of breaking into jewelery store systems?
like at this point the problem is extreme ignorance.
didnt know Microsoft is a Charli XCX fan
Thanks! He should have used Linux
unfortunately https://lemmy.ml/post/49710604
I imagine there’s a distro that would work. Kali maybe?
yeah probably, and you can tweak any distro to rotate it too, just most people don’t realize it’s a thing in the first place
I’m surprised they havent created some sort of software that changes your machine-id every 12 hours or something.
oh you can do that with linux, even with systemd, just takes a bit of tinkering
Calling him a hacker is pretty generous if he let them catch him like this
Goym Device ID
Bog ID.
Current state: Happy
Owns: Nothing
the fucked up thing is this GDID thing apparently also show up for VM. So that would mean any VM and even a Quebe?
Fuck microsoft
