1m_5atoshi

So the big story from April was the arrest of a 19-year-old Finnish guy, Peter Stokes, allegedly part of the Scattered Spider hacker crew. He got extradited to the US and is now looking at federal charges for crypto…

Worth pointing out that this is one of the earlier publicly documented cases where GDID was explicitly named in the context of a cybercrime investigation. There are a bunch of other cases floating around on specialist…

That's not quite how it works though and I think people need to understand this clearly. In recent Windows versions the GDID doesn't just reset when you format. It persists through clean installs and if you reinstall…