On Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 1:12:29 AM UTC-8, Andrew David Wong wrote: > It's just a matter of your personal privacy needs. There might be > unique serial numbers associated with your physical hardware. For > most people, this isn't a problem, but if you're a human rights > activist living under a totalitarian regime who communicates online > under a pseudonym, for example, then it's conceivable that the regime > might use this information to link the psuedonym under which you > submit the .cpio.gz file to the identity under which you purchased the > hardware. > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > Community Manager, Qubes OS > https://www.qubes-os.org
Thanks for letting me know. I wonder if installing a script to run such a command to find serial numbers is how governments deanonymize Tor users? I'll definitely not be submitting that information. Thanks for letting me know how much of a risk it is. Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/caf8ecda-b120-43bf-a512-902b52d9f532%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
