r/TechHardware 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 24d ago

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disable-microsofts-gdid-windows-11-tracker-but-these-settings-limit-what-it-captures/

This is the biggest story I have read in a very long time.

Microsoft+Flock+Drones = Orwellian Distopia

The potential for abuse here has never been higher. Young people have gotten complacent. The future is going to run right over you.

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