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#Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. Posted on February 24, 2021 What is a machine-id, and why should you randomize it? From the machine-id man pages, it is defined as: This ID uniquely identifies the host. It should be considered “confidential”, and must not be exposed in untrusted environments, in particular on the network. If a stable unique identifier that is tied to the machine is needed for some application, the machine ID or any part of it must not be used directly. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html In an effort to promote privacy, having a unique and unchanging identifier tied to your device seems like the wrong approach. It’s quite possible that poorly coded or even maliciously coded software could fetch this ID from your system. Let’s make sure that even if that does happen, that the value is constantly changing so that your device can not be uniquely identified as your device. This is an incredibly simple and quick adjustment to your default Linux system. What we’re doing is showing you how to either adjust this value manually by hand, or by running a cronjob to change this value every minute with a new, randomized value. Before we begin, a disclaimer: We’ve tested this on our own work desktops and development environments and I’ve tested it on my daily driver desktop. We have not found that anything has ‘broken’ because of this, but this is untested in many environments and may not be suitable for your use. It’s always reversible if you later wish to continue with a single, uniquely identifying ID attached to your device(s). Debian / Ubuntu systems To check your machine-id, open up your terminal and enter the following: cat /etc/machine-id The output should look a little something like this: a9976154f0084a3782892638656ad9fd You’ll note that this value is also stored in /var/lib/dbus/machine-id and that a symlink between the two exist. Any change to one file, will be reflected in the other. me@virtbox-testing:~$ cat /etc/machine-id a9976154f0084a3782892638656ad9fd me@virtbox-testing:~$ cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a9976154f0084a3782892638656ad9fd If you reboot your device, you’ll notice that this value remains unchanged. So, let’s change it ourselves! Method 1: Manually. Method 2 is automatically, every minute, as ran by a cron-job. If you don’t want to fully commit to that, you can change your machine-id by hand manually whenever you feel like it. Step 1, remove the old machine-id file. sudo rm /etc/machine-id Step 2, recreate the machine-id file. sudo systemd-machine-id-setup Step 3, confirm that /etc/machine-id (and /var/lib/dbus/machine-id) now show a new value, different from the original. cat /etc/machine-id && cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id That’s it! You should see two lines in your output with matching IDs that differ from the original machine-id you had in the beginning. me@virtbox-testing:~$ cat /etc/machine-id && cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a78badce3e73beced163bbef7e55232a a78badce3e73beced163bbef7e55232a You’ve changed your device’s uniquely identifying machine-id. This change will survive device reboots and will remain the same until you create a new one. Method 2: Changing every 1 minute, automatically. If the above didn’t satisfy your needs, than feel free to automate the creation of a new machine-id by creating a cronjob entry that will generate a new ID every minute. Step 1, open up your crontab file. sudo crontab -e Step 2, enter at the bottom of the file the following: */1 * * * * sudo rm /etc/machine-id && sudo systemd-machine-id-setup Save and Exit. Step 3, wait a minute and confirm that your machine-id value has changed: cat /etc/machine-id && cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id You should see two new matching values, that differs from the original value you had at the start. Wait a minute and run the step 3 command again, and you’ll see that these values have changed.

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#Android#web#browsers Ungoogled Chromium (forked from cromite) with Bromite patches and additional codecs https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/releases https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android Cromite is another example of ungoogled chromium without the extra codecs from the above link, but cromite includes more patches as noted at github. https://github.com/uazo/cromite Fdroid repo https://www.cromite.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=49f37e74dee483dca2b991334fb5a0200787430d0b5f9a783dd5f13695e9517b For an Android Firefox based browser, use IronFox https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases Fdroid repo https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=c5e291b5a571f9c8cd9a9799c2c94e02ec9703948893f2ca756d67b94204f904 These can be added to Obtainium to download the latest release when they are available https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium

Changelog : v4.6.4 (65) • Fixed issues with shared library installation for apps like Chrome and WebView • Support for login into personal account using microG • Fixed an issue with auth verification • Translation updates; Additional strings localized

IronFox IronFox is a fork of DivestOS's Mull Browser based on #Firefox that has been discontinued. Our goal is to continue the legacy of #Mull to provide a secure, hardened and privacy-oriented #browser for daily use. And add the release link to Obtainium: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/releases Don't forget to use extensions uBlock Origin and Libredirect only. Adding more extensions will cause fingerprinting and most are false security. - uBlock Origin -- add the ai blocklist to uBO - LibRedirect -- setup all the sites you want to redirect to and choose your mirrors for them. Set your default search to 4get (Captcha) https://4get.ca/web?s=%s (No captcha) https://4get.ch/web?s=%s Finally, go through all the ironfox settings and set them how you would prefer them. Read the gitlab page. Specifically... Known Issues Please see the list of known issues and workarounds before opening an issue! Issues inherited from Mull that still apply to IronFox *(contents adapted from DivestOS's website)* You should also see here for a list of websites with known issues due to hardening, and what you may need to do to fix them. This list is maintained by Phoenix - so while it isn't specific to IronFox or Mull, many of these problems do still apply. Ironfox has Phoenix already, but this can be added to other browsers on Android and desktop.

Google Apps update If you're having problems with various Google Apps not working properly starting within the last 2 weeks or so, check this out: Google recently changed the method used to create app signatures on all Google Apps, and will be rolling these changes out to ALL apps distributed via Google Play starting next year. This requires all app signature spoofing methods (either embedded within your ROM or used as an external patch) to be updated to continue to support apps distributed via Google Play on a device running microG. The Github comment linked below contains a list of which ROMs and signature spoofing patches have imported the changes necessary to support the new Google Play app signing mechanism. We advise you to NOT do any updates of apps sourced from Google Play - especially paid apps or any app that does license-checking - until you have these fixes applied on your devices or those apps may stop working! (I do not know if the linked post will be continuously updated to reflect news about other ROMs etc but it is correct as of the time of posting. Most ROMs based on LOS should get these patches eventually. Please check with your ROM maintainer.) https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2680#issuecomment-2548579352 Here's a summary of the situation: FakeGApps (fix merged) - v6.5 or higher contains the fixes LineageOS 19.1/20/21/22 (fix merged) - All builds from 2024/12/17 onwards contain the fix LineageOS for microG (fix auto-included from upstream) - All builds from 2024/12/17 onwards contain the fix /e/OS (fix merged) - v2.6.3 or higher contains the fix crDroid (fix merged) - v15.0-20241225 or higher contains the fix CalyxOS 6.2.2 and 5.14.1 (fix merged) - New versions in the works IodéOS v5.8 or higher (fix included) DivestOS (no info yet)

microG GMSCore v0.3.6.244735 has been released on 2024-12-23. UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS: This is a feature and bugfix/compatibility update. There is at least one report of a new issue with this release. If you have critical reliance on your device you may want to wait a week or two until more user reports are in before updating to this. (UNLESS you are still on 0.2.27 for UNLP reasons. Scroll to the bottom of this doc for more info before installing.) New Features Overview Initial Support for Play Integrity If you need this, you probably already know what it is. We doubt this is going to be some magic solution as Google is always targeting to block custom ROM users with this tool, but it may improve compatibility for some users. Let us know how it works for you. Add support in the Self-Check Page to show compatibility with Google’s new app signing regime Google recently broke compatibility with Google Apps and future apps downloaded from Google Play by changing their app signing scheme. This requires a change in your app signature spoofing solution, either inside your ROM or in an external add-on. This change will show you if your ROM or signature spoofing solution has updated to support this Google change. Other improvements Improve Google Play Games compatibility, general compatibility improvements, various bugfixes, language translation updates. For a full changelog, see the links below. Github release page Includes release notes overview https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases/tag/v0.3.6.244735 DETAILED changelogs with code commits: 0.3.5 —> 0.3.6 https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/compare/v0.3.5.240913...v0.3.6.244735 ======== UPDATING: * This has been flagged as a PREVIEW release on the microG website and F-droid repo. Since this is a “Preview” release, it will NOT be suggested to you as a new update unless you have your client configured to offer "unstable” software versions, or select the new version manually in the “Versions” dropdown at the bottom of the app page on F-droid. The most straightforward way to update the microG core module for most people is by using the F-droid client, with the special microG F-droid repo added. (See our “f-droid-repo” group note here) You can also update microG on an existing installation by downloading the new APK from the official microG Github download page or website, and install it like any other standalone APK. REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE TWO MAIN MICROG COMPONENTS: GmsCore and microG Companion. Always update both together, and ensure the version numbers match. If you use a ROM which bundles microG and the above update methods do not work, you may have to wait for your ROM to update to the new microG version. Ask your ROM developer. For new installs, the 3rd-party installer bundles will be updated as per each developer's workflow.

Very sadly DivestOS come to the end 😱😭 Anniversary and Final Update¶ Notes from Tavi December marks 10 years of #DivestOS! There were over 7,000 git commits created in this time. I believe the projects were highly successful in their goals, however this month will mark the end. DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates. Hypatia and Carrion will no longer receive database updates. The non-mobile Divested projects (eg. Brace, D-WRT, real-ucode, and DNS blocklists) will continue to be maintained. Most of our forum threads will be closed and the DivestOS XMPP chat rooms will also be turned off. Donations will no longer be accepted and all recurring donations will be cancelled. Thank you to all the users, contributors, and donors for this time. -Tavi https://divestos.org/pages/news#end

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition Open, local, and private #voice#assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ Resources https://voice-pe.home-assistant.io/resources/ https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe Community https://community.home-assistant.io/ Specs SoC ESP32-S3 SoC with 16 MB of FLASH storage 8 MB octal PSRAM Audio Processing XMOS XU316 Featuring: Echo cancellation Stationary noise removal Auto gain control Dedicated I2S lines for audio in and out Power / data USB-C, 5 V DC, 2 A Radios 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.0 Audio output 3.5 mm (⅛”) stereo headphone jack Digital to analog converter (DAC): TI AIC3202 48 kHz sampling rate Software ESPHome preloaded Fully open-source firmware for both the ESP32 and XMOS chip #iot#homeassistant

#NewPipe on #Linux, Using Android_translation_layer https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963932 #yt

Telegram Maltego a free set of Transforms for Maltego that enables OSINT investigations in the Telegram messenger. Initially designed solely to simplify de-anonymization through stickers/emojis, it has since expanded far beyond its original functionality, allowing for more advanced investigations. Features: Getting Telegram profile by phone number Getting a linked Telegram channel group Getting a list of Telegram group administrators Getting a list of authors of a Telegram channel Collect all forwarded & similar channels by Channel Search for deleted posts and generate links to view them Indexing of all stickers/emoji in Telegram channel Identification of the creator of a set of stickers/emoji https://github.com/vognik/maltego-telegram #tg#telegram