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[PDF]A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users IP history even with VPN, Full web activity, Video game activity and games played, Logged-in social accounts Via undocumented Windows Device ID (www.justice.gov)
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You can read about it yourself here on page 12 (or page 8 of affidavit), then page 33 and down (page 29 of affidavit)

First one to notice this: Security researcher, VX-Underground.

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[–] 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like the used other data to link the IP addresses that were used, not tracked the IP addresses directly through the VPN.

Privacy is pretty much fucked these days because there are so many identifiers being gathered your device ends up being "unique.". And if your device is unique, you can disappear in the U.S, appear in Spain, and when they look up who you are in Spain, they still know it is the same device.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah if you’re going to be a hacker it’s good to do so from as clean of a machine as possible

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure it's been established that VMs can be fingerprinted based off the host machine.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Depends on how it’s done; using Hyper-V, definitely.

    Using QEMU? The network traffic will all be linked back against the QEMU UUID, but that’s it. Disposable QEMU image via TOR? It gets harder to track back.

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