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You’ll see that the command, when ran a minute or more apart, will produce new values now.
In closing
Uniquely identifying ID’s are rarely a good thing when you take privacy into consideration, and although these items have their purpose in limited use cases it doesn’t appear that generating a new unique ID every minute has any downsides.
What do you think? Is this a pointless privacy practice or a needed, but often overlooked part in maintaining privacy in the modern age? Let us know in the comments below.
Additional Thoughts
After publishing this article, we received some feedback that I’d like to touch base on here.
Testing the high privacy, pro-anonymity Tails-OS shows that you receive a new machine-id after every reboot. Props to Tails-OS!
Testing the privacy and anonymity promoting Whonix-OS shows that they do not issue a new machine-ID after every reboot.
A commenter on a [RAMBLE] post mentions that MXLinux does not use systemd, and thus does not use a machine-id.
Here is a list of Linux operating systems that do not use systemd. (And will not have a machine-id)
Yes, there are other uniquely identifying aspects on all systems. From device serial numbers to MAC addresses. The purpose of this post was to discuss a lesser discussed unique identifer: machine-id.
me@virtbox-testing:~$ cat /etc/machine-id && cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id b722903d87994e24b6378289262c3021 b722903d87994e24b6378289262c3021 me@virtbox-testing:~$ cat /etc/machine-id && cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id 4352c41ad7fb4a05a54b0942c5c27cb0 4352c41ad7fb4a05a54b0942c5c27cb0 In closing
Uniquely identifying ID’s are rarely a good thing when you take privacy into consideration, and although these items have their purpose in limited use cases it doesn’t appear that generating a new unique ID every minute has any downsides.
What do you think? Is this a pointless privacy practice or a needed, but often overlooked part in maintaining privacy in the modern age? Let us know in the comments below.
Additional Thoughts
After publishing this article, we received some feedback that I’d like to touch base on here.
Testing the high privacy, pro-anonymity Tails-OS shows that you receive a new machine-id after every reboot. Props to Tails-OS!
Testing the privacy and anonymity promoting Whonix-OS shows that they do not issue a new machine-ID after every reboot.
A commenter on a [RAMBLE] post mentions that MXLinux does not use systemd, and thus does not use a machine-id.
Here is a list of Linux operating systems that do not use systemd. (And will not have a machine-id)
Yes, there are other uniquely identifying aspects on all systems. From device serial numbers to MAC addresses. The purpose of this post was to discuss a lesser discussed unique identifer: machine-id.
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Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-get-886-250-for-49-zero-days-at-pwn2own-automotive-2025/
https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru
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#cars
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-get-886-250-for-49-zero-days-at-pwn2own-automotive-2025/
https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru
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#cars
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Hackers get $886,250 for 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025
The Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 hacking contest has ended with security researchers collecting $886,250 after exploiting 49 zero-days.
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DeepSeek officially announces another open-source AI model, Janus-Pro-7B.
This model generates images and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across multiple benchmarks. 🔗
This model generates images and beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion across multiple benchmarks. 🔗
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JUST IN - Chinese DeepSeek AI temporarily limits new user registrations due to "large-scale malicious attacks" on its services.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA's share price is dropping like a stone. Last down over 16%.
@disclosetv
Meanwhile, NVIDIA's share price is dropping like a stone. Last down over 16%.
@disclosetv
Its not a horrible browser, but it really has no privacy stuff. Just having Greasemonkey doesn't really do anything by default, and most scripts won't solve issues that real privacy browsers resolve.
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/privacy/comments/vwfqwj/falkon_as_a_browser/
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/privacy/comments/vwfqwj/falkon_as_a_browser/
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Falkon as a browser - r/privacy
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🇵🇸Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepseek-database-leak
wiz.io
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
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https://youtu.be/XkCUFp5EA0I
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https://youtu.be/XkCUFp5EA0I
It's Time to Ditch VPNs
Stop paying for out-dated technology that was never intended to protect your privacy. Get peace of mind with SPN . Built from scratch and designed to truly protect your privacy from mass surveillance.
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