What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.
My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.
I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.
I never said there was. There is however a kernel parameter to change the machine id, which I did say.
What you said was that if a person was actually worried about it there is a kernel parameter to change it.
My reply was not intended to refute what you said but instead to illustrate how that approach doesn’t solve the problem of tracking and is not a workable solution for many systems and users.
I made that reply to help you and any reader understand the depth and breadth of the problem, not to start a fight.