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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by microcolonel on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:51PM (#20170539)
Barring an extremely risky, one-off backdoor in the management engine or your board or device firmware; there should be no reason why your hard disk, GPU, board, memory, and NIC UUIDs (MACs are configurable, and random by default in NetworkManager and some other network configuration systems) are available to third parties on a regular basis, unless you put software on your computer to make that happen.

Don't run spyware on purpose.

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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by solarkraft on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:52AM (#20176047)
> unless you put software on your computer to make that happen

Couldn't that be ... any software?

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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by microcolonel on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:46PM (#20187802)
Well, you could start by not installing software that you know exfiltrates these data, like Microsoft Windows, or Adobe Flash...
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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by solarkraft on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:52PM (#20191465)
Even in free software, do you audit everything you install? Information security is only as strong as the weakest link.
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Re:Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI by microcolonel on Saturday June 15, 2019 @10:57PM (#20193576)
Why not start with software which isn't known to deliberately disseminate information about your computer. Sure, if you move the goalposts all day, you'll never score.
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