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[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@T3chFalcon Elite Cybersecurity

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 19-year-old hacker used VPNs, tunneling tools, and rotated IPs across 3 countries. The FBI still caught him. Here's the Windows feature that made it possible and why it should concern everyone.

Peter Stokes, an alleged member of Scattered Spider (the group behind $100M+ in ransomware extortion), was arrested at Helsinki Airport this April. Court documents revealed a key piece of evidence: Microsoft's GDID.

What is a GDID?
GDID = Global Device Identifier. It's a unique code baked into every Windows installation. Microsoft uses it for telemetry, crash reports, feature usage, and license verification (it's why swapping your CPU can break your Windows activation).

What Microsoft gave the FBI:
→ Web activity with timestamps
→ Gaming history
→ IP addresses used over time
→ Tool usage (including Ngrok, a tunneling app)
→ Azure account activity

All tied to one persistent device fingerprint. Even though the VPN masked his IP, it didn't affect the GDID.

How they connected the dots:
Every time Stokes logged in to Snapchat, Apple, or Facebook from a new IP address, the GDID was there too. Investigators matched timestamps across platforms and countries: Tallinn, New York, Thailand, Germany. Different IPs. Same machine. Same person.

Microsoft had already identified him in October 2024 and filed a criminal referral. He was still 17. So they waited till He turned 18. Then they moved.

Yes, Stokes is accused of serious crimes. But the GDID data exists on every Windows machine, including yours. The infrastructure that handed his entire digital life to the FBI is the same infrastructure running on your laptop right now.

The unanswered questions:
- There's no public policy on when Microsoft shares GDID data

- No known opt-out mechanism

- No transparency report specifically covering GDID disclosures

- What other criminal referrals has Microsoft quietly filed?

[ENBAJA @enbajafutbol]

Han eliminado a Alemania y a Japón el mismo día parece que estemos en 1945 de nuevo

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@KingFemi__ I highly support paying Roma for Koné

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@analyzingfutbol You save Casemiro wages and repay to tchou. Not wise, unless he takes a pay cut.

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@fwdaniels More like don’t let the movies fool you. Jaime Lannister was a huge problem. One of the most reknowned swordsmen in Westeros history

[Red Army 68' 🇾🇪 @MUFC_RA]

If Ugarte is out for 12 months, Utd are due £5.78m in compensation from FIFA.

FIFA’s Club Protection Programme pays clubs the daily salary of injured players (after 28 days), capped at £120k/week.

Ugarte earns exactly £120k/week so they’d get the maximum compensation offered

[Ecowas Fabrizio @olisaemeka_G]

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7 POINTS AGENDA : MY IMAGINATIONS 😅

Some of the easiest and most brutal ways to force our football to develop by fire by force is to:

1. Ban all sports stations in Nigeria from airing any league that isn’t Nigerian league.

2. Only use home based players for the national team no matter how badly they perform.

3. Mandate every state in Nigeria to have a fifa standard stadium.

4. Increase minimum wage in npfl to 350k, NNL 100k, NLO 50k for players and staffs.

5. Play all big matches in the npfl at Night under heavy security.

6. Introduce NFF Tv that covers all the divisions of Nigerian football and broadcast it to every household.

7. Government gets 20% of transfer fees of any player that moves abroad directly from npfl.

Private investors would take care of the rest.

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@officiall_logo Very embarrassing for your papa

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@tobyasky It’s giving Didier Drogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@Jack_ng01 Nigeria doesn’t need stadiums. Small pitches with less than 20k capacity. Structured coaching and youth development systems. Every NPL club must have a youth team.

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@SportyTV @SportsDiscuz This zidane brother could’ve def done better for the 1st two goals

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@LegacySiu Les blues

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@SwedishRumble The season salah went to Liverpool, Tomas lemar was just as highly rated as diomandé is now. Pulisic was too.
Sometimes these things aren’t that straightforward

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@UTDIMole Fc porto

[Sir Collins, MAAT. @CollinsofYork]

The Deeper Market Failure
The SMV framework, as it operates in practice, is built on a false and incomplete signal:
Young women make good lovers, Older women make good wives.
This rule has governed Nigerian male decision-making for generations. Men lease the young for pleasure and purchase the older for domesticity and progeny. But this rule does not account for what happens to a woman during the leasing years, the expectations formed, the standards calibrated, the emotional and psychological toll accumulated.
Increasingly, Nigerian men are recognising this gap in the market logic. The result is a market correction: men are withdrawing from outright purchase altogether. They are refusing to marry women in their 30s, not out of cruelty, but out of a rational, if painful, market calculation. The consequence is the pandemic of unmarried Nigerian women aged 30s–40s, women who participated fully and compliantly in the leasing market of their youth, only to find the purchase market has dried up when they were ready for it.

Recommendations: Surmounting the Challenge
For Women
1. Recalibrate the standard early.
Understand, before your 30s, that the men who spent lavishly on you in your 20s were not displaying normal male behaviour, they were displaying the behaviour of men 10–20 years ahead of your future husband. Build expectations against trajectory, not against current position.
2. Audit the body count's emotional cost.
Multiple partners in the leasing years are not merely statistical, they leave psychological imprints: tolerance thresholds, comparison frameworks, emotional availability. Honest self-awareness about these imprints is necessary before entering a permanent partnership.
3. Marry intentionally, not defensively.
Marrying at 32 to "exit the market" is a transaction made under duress, not desire. A marriage entered to escape singlehood rather than to build something with a specific person will not survive the first serious conflict.
4. Invest in a man's potential, not just his present.
The man at 33 who is becoming something is frequently a better long-term investment than the man at 50 who already is something. One grows with you; the other grows past you.

For Men
1. Enter the leasing market earlier, deliberately.
Social and financial timidity in your 20s leaves you entering marriage with insufficient experience of women, relationships, and your own relational patterns. This is a disadvantage. Develop emotional and relational intelligence before purchase, not during it.
2. Communicate expectations before commitment.
The conversation about shared financial responsibility, domestic roles, and lifestyle expectations must happen before marriage, not after. Resentment that surfaces in year two was usually visible in the courtship if anyone had looked.
3. Understand what you are actually buying.
Marriage is not only the acquisition of a companion - it is a merger of two full histories, including all the men and experiences that preceded you. Enter it with that knowledge, not with the illusion of a blank slate.
4. Choose a partner, not a status symbol.
Marrying to signal market participation - I have arrived, I can now afford a wife - is as unstable a foundation as marrying to exit the market. Both are transactions, and neither is a partnership.

Conclusion
The divorce epidemic among young Nigerian couples is not primarily a moral failure or a spiritual crisis, it is a market timing problem. Men and women peak at different times, participate in the market in different modes, and accumulate incompatible histories before they ever meet at the altar. The SMV framework, properly understood, does not excuse either party, it explains the structural conditions that make conflict predictable and resolution difficult. The solution is not to abandon the market metaphor but to enter it with clearer eyes, better preparation, and the honesty to say that what we call love is built, not simply found.

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@FCPerformances Still most analysts rated him below 7.0. I wonder why

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@usbil01 Na skit. Baba say make him answer the girl call 😂

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu just provided further details on his heavily hyped Renewed Hope Agenda, and the sheer mathematics of this project is deeply disturbing, especially since this mega scheme is aggressively marketed as a lifeline to better the lives of ordinary Nigerians.

In the quoted tweet below, President Tinubu claimed that exactly ₦128 billion in mortgages has been generously delivered to 1,859 families at a fixed interest rate of 9.75% spread over 20 long years through the Ministry of Finance Incorporated.
On the surface, this looks like the ultimate utopian dream project, primarily because a 9.75% mortgage rate is ridiculously low, especially when you compare it to the predatory standard market rates which presently sit anywhere between 20%, 25%, 30%, or even higher depending on the bank.
However, even with this seemingly charitable low interest rate, a simple, cold mathematical breakdown instantly exposes that these supposed affordable homes are entirely out of reach for the average, hardworking Nigerian in whose very name this multibillion Naira PR project is being violently advertised.

To see this blatant scam, simply divide ₦128 billion among 1,859 families, and you will rapidly discover that the average mortgage size is a staggering, eye-watering ₦68.8 million per home. Now, under the exact terms quoted by Tinubu, which is 9.75% interest over 20 years with a mandatory 10% equity contribution of roughly ₦6.8 million, a single family would have to reliably cough up roughly ₦600,000 to ₦650,000 every single month just to service this impossible mortgage.

This mathematical reality clearly demonstrates that the policy architects behind this Renewed Hope Agenda have completely, and spectacularly lost their minds, their touch with reality, and their basic common sense.
First of all, the brand new minimum wage recently signed into law in Nigeria is an alleged, highly disputed ₦70,000, which is an insulting amount that many state governors claim they cannot even afford to pay, sustain, or budget for. Even with this symbolic, poverty-level wage, the average Nigerian that these houses are supposedly built for would genuinely need to starve, save every single kobo, and work for one full uninterrupted year just to afford a single one-month mortgage repayment. Currently, absolutely no middle-class citizen in Nigeria with an honest, verifiable, and legitimate source of living can ever afford to burn this massive amount every month for a house, no matter how stupid, lavish, or financially reckless they want to be.

Now this begs the incredibly obvious, screaming question: why on earth is the Tinubu administration deliberately wasting ₦128 billion (a massive $90 million) to provide subsidized affordable housing to a tiny fraction of 1,859 families who are obviously loaded with cash, highly connected, financially immune, and can easily afford luxury apartments, fund their own private estates, secure massive commercial bank loans, or buy premium properties outright?
This ridiculous allocation of scarce public funds makes zero strategic sense because the exact amount quoted for this vanity project is comfortably enough to buy about 4 highly advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones, fully equip them, heavily arm them, and ship them straight to the bleeding frontlines of Northern Nigeria.
These military-grade drones can stay airborne for 30 continuous hours, monitor the entire terror-infested forests in Borno in less than one hour, track moving targets, and violently update the Nigerian military in real time for any mass gatherings of armed bandits, hostage holding areas, illegal gold mining operations, or cross-border insurgent movements.

The colossal amount of money involved in this project is not merely the ₦128 billion senselessly wasted so far. Obviously, before this entire grand, systemic money laundering scheme is fully completed, more than ₦320 billion will have magically vanished, migrated, and evaporated from the Nigerian Treasury directly into the bloated private offshore accounts of ghost contractors, corrupt civil servants, APC campaign financiers, loyal party chieftains, and the ruling party's untouchable inner circle.

This is complete madness. Our brave men in uniform are constantly being taken by surprise, ambushed, and rounded up by ragtag terrorists simply because their vulnerable forward operating bases do not come equipped with basic acoustic sensors, infrared thermal cameras, night vision goggle, or basic aerial reconnaissance drones to serve as early warning mechanisms. Yet the Commander in Chief is cheerfully burning hundreds of billions of Naira under the guise of public welfare, deliberately laundering public treasury funds into the deep back pockets of shady construction companies, and happily providing heavily subsidized affordable housing to his ultra-rich, highly privileged, and politically connected friends.

[Akas @Jerry_akas]

@Queeneth01olx The heartbreak go too pain this guy. Please take it easy on him