Post by @pid_eins@mastodon.social

2026-03-20 05:06 UTC

@cas@social.treehouse.systems It's as if UNIX carries AN ENTIRE DATABASE of PII in /etc/ without any consideration for user's privacy! Unbelievable! I think we all need to *demand* from Kernighan and Ritchie to immediately drop /etc/passwd and related files from UNIX, and stop helping the government with collecting this kind of data. It's really appalling that no one has called them out on this yet! The shock! The horror!

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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-20 05:10

@cas@social.treehouse.systems i never trusted these people in the first place and boy was I right. I'll now move one of my machines to CrazyOS because it stores no PII at all. That will hurt Kernighan and Ritchie, Ha! CrazyOS will not store *any* PII, it's so good! It doesnt have a password (MS-DOS back in the day already had that, and it should be common sense), you just are let in right away. It's kinda annoying though that it has no $HOME to store data in, but of course that's cool, because that would be PII...

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@ailepet@peoplemaking.games 2026-03-20 11:29

@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems I've actually had a bunch of teachers at uni who told us about PII in /etc/ and asked us if Linux was GDPR-compliant. We didn't had a definitive answer (it was mostly "no"), but neither did they.

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