A Scattered Spider member was indicted. Microsoft’s GDID went to trial.

A recently released criminal complaint against Peter Stokes , an alleged member of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group , reveals previously unpublicized details about Windows telemetry . Microsoft has never exactly had a reputation for being privacy-focused, however the complaint reveals the important part played by Microsoft’s Global Device Identifier (GDID), a persistent identifier tied to a Windows installation, in the case. GDID enabled investigators to correlate the suspect’s Windows inst