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Re:Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside? (1999) by userbinator on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:57PM (#26452910)
There are a lot of unique identifiers in a PC, not just on the CPU but various ones in the motherboard (BIOS) too...

from spinning up a VM

...and you can change them, even if not easily, for a VM. AFAIK the Windows licensing/activation relies on the same uniqueness.

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