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It's quite surprising that my disposable virtual machine's firefox in Qubes OS is unique among all tested so far...
by dandelion_lover 10y ago
It's quite surprising that my disposable virtual machine's firefox in Qubes OS is unique among all tested so far...
- chatmasta 10y agoWhy is that surprising? That's going to be a unique fingerprint in most datasets. The average user is not using Qubes, Firefox or Linux. Qubes isn't designed to blend into all other users; it's designed to make you unlinkable to your other Qubes instances. A better experiment would be to run the test in two of your Qubes instances. Hopefully they will both be unique.
- hrjet 10y agoIsn't Qubes OS just a hypervisor? The hosted OSes shouldn't leak that they are running under Qubes.
- chatmasta 10y agoYeah, but the point still stands most people are not running all the unique programs within the guest OSes (Linux, Firefox, Tor, ...). But granted it may be surprising there was no collision with another HN user.