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WASM SIMD CPU Fingerprinting: A Signal, Not an Identity

WASM SIMD CPU Fingerprinting: A Signal, Not an Identity

David Fumuman 11 Jul 2026 16 min read

A bot lands on your login page claiming to be a Windows desktop on an Intel chip. Its User-Agent says so, its navigator.platform says so, and its screen size and timezone all agree. One WebAssembly instruction says it's running on ARM. That contradiction is the whole