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Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN (archive.is)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Just want to point out that /etc/machine-id is unique to systemd systems. AlpineLinux, for example, doesn't generate this file on install.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    We tossed systemd out the window on our Debian. Stuff broke when we removed /etc/machine-id.

    Turns out dbus ALSO uses it, but if it's not in /etc, it makes its own at /var/lib/dbus/machine-id (which was symlinked to /etc/machine-id on our system).

    So we just wrote 00000000000000000000000000000000 to it instead. 🙃

    -- Frost

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