A VPN can hide your IP address, but it does not make you anonymous.
In this video, I break down the Peter Stokes / Scattered Spider case and explain how investigators allegedly used Microsoft records, a Windows Global Device Identifier, VPN activity, social accounts, and travel records to connect the dots.
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This is not a story about VPNs failing. It is a story about everything else your device is doing while you think you are hidden.
We’ll talk about what a GDID is, what Microsoft telemetry can reveal, why VPN ads oversell privacy, and what this means for normal people, journalists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and anyone who thinks “I use a VPN” is a complete privacy strategy.
