GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers

2 months ago by JensSpahnpasta to c/technik

The publisher wants MachineGuid identifiers, login IPs, and OneDrive contents by September 4.

DmMacniel 23 points 2 months ago

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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FiniteBanjo 10 points 2 months ago

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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fistac0rpse 3 points 2 months ago

Has Discord already handed over info? Nothing in the article about it

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FiniteBanjo 2 points 2 months ago

I find it difficult to imagine they could Identify 3 specific servers in association with the leaks oterwise, but I guess it's possible.

Are the leakers primarily publishing on Discrd? That would just be silly.

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DmMacniel 2 points 2 months ago

Fucking hell. How did that ever came to this /r

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4am 6 points 2 months 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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far_university1990 5 points 2 months 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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HerbGrower 6 points 2 months ago

If they do I hope it kills discords reputation and it gets replaced.

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4am 2 points 2 months ago

I hope this kills Take Two’s reputation and the reputation of whatever law firm thought that this egregious fishing expedition was ok

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HerbGrower 2 points 2 months ago

I am OK with both companies collapsing over it

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