Re:Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
by zbentley on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:24PM
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OpenBSD’s equivalent is the hw.uuid sysctl: https://man.openbsd.org/sysctl.2#HW_UUID~2
Other BSDs don’t have that, but have equivalent PCI tree identifiers. “hostid”, too, is found on many systems but is much less unique as it’s often a function of local network address.
I’ve seen that it uses a different init system and doesn’t rely on either dbus or systemd