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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)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 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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