On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:59 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/19/2017 07:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Does this hold any water? Does the switch from paravirtualization to
> HVM/SLAT degrade privacy by allowing easier hardware fingerprinting?
>
> It holds no water.
>
> There is no such thing as "hardware fingerprinting"

Then what do you call checking e.g. clock drift, disk bandwidth, etc.?

> what is usually done
> for DRM or w/e is simply reading the model names and serial numbers of
> hardware installed - nothing truly "magic".
>
> You can easily change what is displayed in lscpu for example no matter if
> you are using HVM or software virt.
> In any virt system the graphics device name isn't displayed in the VM nor
> your total amount of RAM or serial numbers of drives.
>
> Self proclaimed experts on reddit who mention something provocative but
> provide no technical information almost always have no idea what they are
> talking about.

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