The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It)

'A few days ago Devuan ASCII 2.1 was announced and one update has been
overlooked by most media outlets: our dbus patch to re-generate
machine-id at every boot.

This patch matters for everyone's privacy and I hope more
distributions will follow our example, let alone Debian. We are
dealing with important privacy implications: non-consensual user
tracking is illegal in many countries and is not even mentioned in the
machine-id documentation so far.

"In theory, the machine-id should be a persistent identifier of the
current host," explains the README documentation. "In practice, this
causes some privacy concerns...'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/11/30/0538211

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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