Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:26:51 -0600 From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What exactly is hostid used for? Message-ID: <Y30%2Bm7XBybHgieFl@geeks.org> In-Reply-To: <CAD2Ti28=Eis2NXHEPucgLd6wbVN%2Biowfo3vtm-raHLjbCMGxOg@mail.gmail.com> References: <NHHpbAs--3-9@tutanota.com> <1931267.2YEvzyG8uJ@ravel> <CAD2Ti28=Eis2NXHEPucgLd6wbVN%2Biowfo3vtm-raHLjbCMGxOg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 01:51:39AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > But frankly, why would you ever bother with disabling it? > > Because "apps (often aka anti-privacy tools)" and nic's and attacks > can read your unique and paste it into the internet, and do whatever > else with it. Would not be surprising if javascript browsers are reading > such things. Nor would some environments want it embedded in say > offsite backups of zpools, etc. I think the last time I had bought any commercial software for FreeBSD, it was OSS drivers about 20 years ago. Not sure there's been any since. I doubt the browser vendors make a path for hostid to show through, when there are a million other things that browser fingerprinting can capture and use. Ie. are you unique enough? https://www.amiunique.org/ There's so much other data to be used that is pushed through the browser allowing fingerprinting.
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