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GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 23 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Take-Two wants more than just names and is asking for MachineGuid and MSA device identifiers, registration and last-login IP addresses, phone numbers, linked Google and Xbox connections, and OneDrive contents for every account that communicated in three named Discord servers since June 1.

How could these even be linked together with the accounts on the discord server? And what's when the users were using a non-windows system, so Microslop would come out with nothing?

But even then, that a DMCA demand like that is possible is fricking terrifying.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago

    This is like going to a bar where someone was drugged and asking for the family tree and financial of everyone who had visited the bar since the 80s

    Take Two is abusing the legal system to do a fishing expedition here.

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  • [–] 10 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    Windows already gave up the GUID tracking capabilities to FBI earlier this year and it allowed them to track a user even past a VPN, the "scattered spider" scandal.

    Something more interesting, I think, is how quickly Take Two was able to get info out of Discord. That platform really has turned into a shitshow cog in the machine which is Peter Theil's surveillance state.

    Basically end to end encryption doesn't protect you if your endpoint is exposed, and that's the case with Windows because they're shipping your unique identifier to sites you visit.

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  • [–] 5 points 22 hours ago

    How could these even be linked together with the accounts on the discord server?

    GUID track your internet connection to all server and your ip even through vpn. Correlate with discord signup date and ip and get account link to GUID.

    And then GUID to microslop account for rest of data i think.

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