▲ 96 ▼ [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 beep@piefed.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[+] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) Pretty sure it's been established that VMs can be fingerprinted based off the host machine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) Pretty sure it's been established that VMs can be fingerprinted based off the host machine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 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. permalink fedilink source parent