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Re:Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in... by mschuster91 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:28PM (#25510105)
> Microsoft also used to include a console's serial number in the animated xbox 360 logo on the main screen in morse code (https://qf0.github.io/blog/2020/01/28/Microsoft-xbox-fingerp...). In order to identify users who published hacking/modding videos on Youtube.

Is that even allowed under the GDPR?!

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Re:Leaked documents from Nintendo investigation of hacker in... by jtvjan on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:47PM (#25510314)
It was before the GDPR was a thing, and it was only used on internal beta versions to catch leakers.

[1]: https://archive.is/JTapN

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