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		elcomet on Dec 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) It could report the host's hardware.

Wowfunhappy on Dec 19, 2020 | [–]

But now you're leaking information about the host, which I would think is worse given the purpose of a VM.

ruslanbogan on Dec 19, 2020 | [–]

It would have to emulate the host hardware to do that because the fingerprint is only going to report what's listed in Device Manager for instance.

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