Long-time Slashdot reader jaromil (Denis “Jaromil” Roio) writes: 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…”
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