In anon-base-files, there’s an anonymous /var/lib/dbus/machine-id which is meant to be shared across multiple anonymity focused distros. It doesn’t have a /etc/machine-id though.
Is there any reason not to anonymize this as well?
If not, it should be the same as /var/lib/dbus/machine-id.
Why doesn’t it exist on my system? Deprecated file, no longer in use? Something still using it?
Does Tails ship one?
related: ⚓ T582 revisit handling of /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
Something useful inside machine-id?
It exists on mine. Might be a Qubes thing?
Not that I’m aware of.
It does but they don’t seem to have done anything with it yet.
Could you please read above link (if not done already) (it talks about
the format of the file), and then implement?
It says it’s the same format as the D-Bus machine ID (/var/lib/dbus/machine-id).
Merged. 
Not great during upgrades.
Setting up anon-base-files (3:3.6-1) ...
Configuration file '/etc/machine-id'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** machine-id (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ?
Can we avoid this interactive dpkg conflict resolution dialog? Somehow preseed saying yes?
Not sure. I’m not that experienced with dpkg.
Anonimizar Machine-id solo es una parte , los ataques que rompen a la red tor buscan algo mas concreto que pueda ser utilizado en el forence como su numero unico de ID / Software IDs Attack / SIA
/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id
Hi jonathanvlan
Welcome to the Whonix community
¡Bienvenido a la comunidad de Whonix!
Used Google translate but not sure of the accuracy.
Usé el traductor de Google pero no estoy seguro de la exactitud.
Anonymize Machine-id is only a part, the attacks that break the network are looking for something more concrete that can be used in the forence as your unique ID / Software IDs Attack / SIA number
/ proc / sys / kernel / random / boot_id
10 posts were split to a new topic: hide /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id from non-root users
21 posts were merged into an existing topic: Restrict hardware information to root
With systemd 250 introducing an overriding machinei-id option, I don’t know if this needs to be revisited or perhaps this option provides an eaesier way to handle this?
- Introducing KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID= support within /etc/machine-info. This value will be preferred over any /etc/machine-id value.
/etc/machine-info seems to be an additional file that might need anonymization.