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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And you’d be technically correct, the best kind of correct.

To the inquisitor:

any distro that’s fully OSS can be fully compiled from scratch with any modifications you choose).

Though yes, if you’re still using Windows, the learning curve may look like a wall.

I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service

Guessing the X11 [X]Wayland migration KDE Plasma bug report? Should be fixed in 6.5.2.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sorry, switched contexts there. Microsoft broke their clipboard service recently which makes me think they added "telemetry" collecting logic somewhere in there.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh right, I misread. And yeah not sure (my win32 repro targets have all been locked for a while) but with all the facepalm regressions I’ve read about lately it really could be anything.

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From my experience, the number one culprit of legacy code breaking is someone asking if anyone knows how it works. Second most common culprit is someone making a "quick patch" to legacy code.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

lol damn, flinched at both even though I was prepared

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