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Re:Devuan considers machine IDs by swinglock on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:00PM (#19530064)
Removing it just makes it more difficult to write legit programs that has use of such features while anything nefarious will be able to find other things to use as fingerprints, including hardware serials, MACs and their own fingerprint files spread across the filesystem in non-standard locations.

Unless the OS is meant to be built for privacy and has a goal to run every app in a sandbox where nothing is fingerprintable, removing easily available fingerprintes would be a disservice to all.

Re:Devuan considers machine IDs by JohnFen on Sunday March 31, 2019 @06:29PM (#19538844)
> Removing it just makes it more difficult to write legit programs

Yeah, that's something I simply could not care less about.

That said, I don't remove it. I set its permissions so that it isn't world-readable instead.

Re:Devuan considers machine IDs by swinglock on Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:24PM (#19577277)
Why?