Social media has been flooded with doomscreaming about a young man who got busted recently for hacking, and how the FBI was able to trace him. The "claim" is that there is something nefarious, unique or both about what happened and why. Those claims are false and, at the same time, underline something I've written about many times in the context of your (and everyone else's including my) digital lives and the risks therein.At the root of how he was caught is what is called a "GDID", or "Global Device ID", a unique numerical identifier generated when Windows is installed and licensed. Since Windows is a licensed software product there has to be a unique "key" that ties it to the license server and is generated during that process. A complete.......(Click link to read more)