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I tried live boot of ubuntu. Every time it can detect accurately. Looks like the whole privacy thing is OVER. Unless lawmakers do something - (i.e) not going to
by throwaway2056 4y ago
I tried live boot of ubuntu. Every time it can detect accurately. Looks like the whole privacy thing is OVER. Unless lawmakers do something - (i.e) not going to happen!
Atleast they can use this to prevent reCaptcha - and make passwords disappear!
- than3 4y agoUbuntu has a lot of unique information that is readily accessible. Machine-ID in /etc being one, but there's various other items that can be used in the same way from d-bus activation, and something like 20 different other places, another large number in snap.
- throwaway202302 4y agoWebsites can access machine-id?
- ale42 4y agoI guess they can't unless somebody had a great idea in the speficiation osome web API...
- throwaway202302 4y agoThat there are os-level identifiers is I think a different discussion. I wonder why these were cited in context of fingerprint.com discussion.
- than3 4y agoI've heard from people I know to be scary skilled in that area that its possible through the d-bus interface. Mind you this was years ago.