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marcosdumay on July 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

Hum... Looks like you didn't notice we losing.

At that same time, Microsoft started using your HDD serial as an identifier. Nowadays there are unique identifiers in most of your hardware, including the north bridge of your motherboard and the TPM that windows now requires.

Also, mobile devices got all kinds of unique identifiers from day 0.

userbinator on July 27, 2022 [–]

No, I sure did notice --- that's why I said "the only victory". All the other battles seem to either have been lost or surrendered without a fight.

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