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Package for MX: http://mx-pkg.mirror.net.in/MX-Linux/mx ... /hw-probe/

But it's better to use latest package from Debian: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/hw-probe

manyroads wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:39 pm Isn't Rosa a Russian distro? I probably won't let Putin have access to my gear.

Rosa?

Released hw-probe 1.5 implementing requests from this thread.

looks promising...
version 1.5 shows still some UUID's ( in form of PARTUUID),
as efibootmgr lists NVRAM entries which seem to have PARTUUID's stored:

$ grep $(lsblk -no PARTUUID /dev/vda1) ./HW_PROBE/LATEST/hw.info/logs/*
./HW ...

Released hw-probe 1.5 implementing requests from this thread.

1. After reading the first two paragraphs of this project's website I see a major flaw in the entire concept: people with incompatible hardware are less-likely to upload their computer's data than are people with systems that are working well, skewing your data and leading to false conclusions ...

What particular data or files you don't want to share? Probably this is already fixed in master.

I deleted /root/HW_PROBE. The one thing I saw in the data collected there in particular that spooked me was details about crypto usage, including salt. I didn't bother to look further than that.

It ...

In MX18 /stretch lsb_release info comes from /etc/lsb-release
In MX19 /buster they seem to ignore /etc/lsb-release and get it from /usr/lib/os-release
So "lsb_release -a" to get version/release info is currently not reliable in MX-19 as it ignores /etc/lsb-release


Added a patch to hw-probe 1.5 ...

OK - I'm spooked. There's stuff in /root/HW_PROBE/LATEST/hw.info that I would not want to fall into the wrong hands. So, I'm going to have to see the anonymized output before cooperating further with this request, even though I very much sympathize with the intention.


What particular data or ...

Contrast my upload with the one kmathern said was his (post #13), the banner on the top says "MX Hardware" like mine, but under "Host Info" and "System" his says MX 19.
Mine originally said "Debian 10" in the "Host Info" section.

Someone (linuxbuild ?) changed it to "MX 19" after I made post ...

OTHO, I do see UUID's in the uploaded data, which are fairly unique to the devices. Wouldn't it be more privacy focused to get those UUID's also hashed or randomized.


Let's hide them. I'll try to prepare a patch tomorrow morning.


Fixed in master: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe/commit ...