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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 2 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1246200/pdf-a-hacker-s-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-ip-history-even-with-vpn-full-we

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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[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would this be a good use case for a VM? I would imagine you could make the most vanilla, undifferentiated "PC" ever with that. I never thought of using that as a clean slate for purposes like this.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day 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.