VPN provider Windscribe released deGDID on July 27, a free, open-source PowerShell script that strips Microsoft's Global Device Identifier from a Windows installation and stops the operating system from generating a new one. The company built the tool after a federal complaint unsealed July 1 in the Northern District of Illinois showed Microsoft had used the identifier, known as GDID, to help investigators tie online activity to a single Windows machine. The complaint charged Peter Stokes, 19, a