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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by navierstokes on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:03PM (#27666240)
The recent Microsoft signed rootkit has specific requests for collecting CPU-ID. That says something about the state of device fingerprinting, but I'm not sure exactly what that is.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-adm...

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Re:Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible by shakkhar on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:39PM (#27680758)
CPUID is just a bunch of flags used to discover the capabilities of your CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPUID
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