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Re:Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) by elcomet on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:57AM (#25475907)
It could report the host's hardware.
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Re:Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:58AM (#25477753)
But now you're leaking information about the host, which I would think is worse given the purpose of a VM.
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Re:Virtual Machine Detection in the Browser (2019) by ruslanbogan on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:35AM (#25477994)
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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