Brave Browser Was Exposing Addresses in Tor Mode for Months: https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browser-leak-exposed-user-domain-info-months

What about .Zil?

I PREDICT IT HAS AN EXACT SIMILAR and just as scary leak out to DNS of addresses that use .zil secure private psuedo-TLD!

.zil leaks to DNS of ISP?

Blockchain Domain Names, No Renewal Fees, Ever. your name record on a Zilliqa BLOCKCHAIN revocable only by you, and auto converted to full URL of your preference via a small open source addon to all main browsers, that resolves .zil addresses

https://unstoppabledomains.com/

for example

ramble.zil might map to https://ramble.pw

but this buggy brave browser might accidentally , if broswer extension missing or turned off, REVEAL TO FEDS that you tied to go to "ramble.zil" because the same fuctards sending onion urls to DNS leaking your actions to feds, will now also send any clicked links that go to a.zil address to try and resolve a .zil at your ISPs DNS

For SHAME!

Feb 8 2021 : How to resolve .zil domain names : https://medium.com/unstoppabledomains/how-to-resolve-zil-domain-names-f43da8fe37a9

Sites for privacy will all soon offer an alternative url using a .zil to redirect to CURRENT preferred net address... even if a raw IP and port on a anti-DDOS service site.

.zil is the future of free speech and unstoppable domains, and i bet brave bug merely hard compares the word ".onion" and will now leak ".zil", just like the bug a few days ago.

fucktard coding.

PD. Also rambler :

read that last tutorial link and actually create a record you control for for "ramble.zil" before the ADL or SPLC subverts you and makes one first.

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html

/etc/machine-id is used to decide whether a boot is the first one. ...

This should have been implemented decades ago. Creating the solution is not difficult in the slightest, and cookies have been a known privacy concern for a long time.

Same garbage approach really as Google took when transferring itself to Alphabet then calling various chunks of it's cash cows different companies.

This is all to stave off anti trust issues and pretend like different operating units.

Facebook however doesn't get this game at all.

It buys brands, folds them in, then shares data with the motherships and does tracking all over the place.

You destroy Facebook's tracking and eliminate their advertising to you, all they have left is any tracking collected in very sneaky ways.

Time has come for everyone to have a proper gateway router at the doorway to your internet connection. Full Linux feature set. The day of nulling and blackholing whole AS Numbers has come.

That's a 2018 incident filed, with 2019 on that article.

Question is were all these things fixed since then.

or this https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/02/massive-apple-security-vulnerability-allows-hackers-to-take-control-of-iphones/

So explain something like this? https://cntechpost.com/2020/11/18/security-vulnerabilities-in-apple-m1-chip-devices-iphone-12-pro/

encryption does not equal security

Javascript creation is decent competition. If Planned Parenthood were holding an adult termination program I'd select both of them.

It's terrible that this data exists. Well intentioned pathway to hell these IDs are.

It's incomprehensible that anything has or can get access to such values. Such should be lock boxed and only root accessible. Definitely nothing a browser or other shi!tware should be able to retrieve. Yet they can and do. Speaks for the need of standardized JAILS for all programs in any computing environment.

This is a good reference to give distro hoppers a fair chance and reduce search and research fatigue for SystemD-less distros: https://www.slant.co/topics/18348/~linux-distros-that-don-t-use-systemd

Awesome, I'll add that to the blog post. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. Another good reason to not run systemd !

Im running mxlinux with sysv init.

->cat /etc/machine-id

cat: /etc/machine-id: No such file or directory

😊

That's true. I've set a cronjob to change it every 2hours. Even more reasons to finally move to Artix.

Furthermore, I just tested Tails and they DO change the machine-id after every reboot. I'm downloading Whonix right now as well to test, but I've got shit rural internet so that'll take some time.

I'll update the blog with my finding when I do.

The fact Tails randomizes it after each reboot should be enough to hint that it's likely a good idea to not have any identifying ID tied to your system...

Good to know. I'm planning to switch over to Artix anyway. But for now I'm going to apply the suggested fix.

I think at the time MSN and ICQ were a thing that existed, Win98 was already obsolete. But I could remember wrong.

As far as I remember, Win98 wasn't even capable of connecting to the Internet out of the box.

I was young and was probably running Win98 with the Yahoo! and Ask! toolbars, with a cool Comet Cursor so I could update my Angelfire site while downloading over Napster. Using Yahoo, MSN and ICQ messengers to connect with my friends from school.

But I could play Age Of Empires and Quake, so that's all I really cared about.

I don't know why machine-id exists, but what I do know is that this only exists on Linux operating systems that use systemd, based on this command:

sudo systemd-machine-id-setup

So the way to avoid it entirely is by switching to a systemd-less Linux, such as Salix OS (clear net only). Actually, systemd has a lot of problems (clear net only), so you should avoid it anyway.

And as to what is it good for besides compromising privacy... I also have no idea. I guess Lennart Poettering Red Hat wanted to do something with it, but they didn't know what to do with it, so they left it as a privacy compromising thing of however many Linux users are being used by systemd.

Honesty, I'm not certain, but it appears in every mainstream distro that uses systemd.

Most people are aware of MAC addresses, but if you search the web for machine-ID being seen as a privacy concern, you'll find nothing.

No need to have a constant, unchanging value that exists from the moment a system is installed.

I'll research it more and update the blog post if I find anything noteworthy.

If you use Adobe anything you have only yourself to blame. It's a contender for worst software creator in all of human history.

Did you skip Win98 or how did that abomination not manage to push you away to Linux?

Why does this machine-id exist in the first place? What is it good for other than compromising privacy?

Microsoft talking about disinformation?????? What do we have here...

We have a once monopoly company, plus a 'creative' company that is so far up average internet users a$$ with ads and profiling, then the mouthpiece of MI-6.

Blah blah blah.

Anti fake news.

When did Microsoft ever care about open source and standards? Had to reverse engineer much of their stuff to have Open Source alternatives and viewers.

Fuck these companies. Fuck their founders. Fuck that fake organization too.

Never too late to adopt. Widows XP sp3 was the last Windows OS I've ran, and haven't looked back since. Though I'll admit that I like simple desktop environments like MATE and XFCE to replicate the classic and familiar navigation that I grew used to from Windows NT 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP.

For newcomers you can't really go wrong with something like Pop_OS, Ubuntu or Mint. They seem to have good support and are really new-user friendly communities behind them.

I've already lost track of how many spy codes are in images. There are so many ways of burying "metadata" in those formats - it's what they were MADE for - and programs that claim to "strip" it are probably "accidentally" forgetting something.

This looks like one more whack at it - I'm not sure from reading that it is a tremendously NEW thing - I'm not sure how they plan to change, say, a .GIF file (not that that didn't have open-ended spy data storage protocols built in already). Are they doing so?

That will be my final push to switch to linux