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not impossible for an adversary to  break out of a VM, but if you are
using a good VM it will at least require a pretty sophisticated
attacker.  I would say that using a VM would increase the security of
your hidden service.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:12 PM,  <hikki at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> The title says it all:
>
> Several people recommend running a hidden service from within a VM,
> to prevent attackers from doing side channel attacks and reading off your
> hardware components and serial numbers.
>
> Then I heard that attackers can actually break out of VM's if they get ro=
ot
> access on it due to a successful attack.
>
> I just want your opinions on that one, thanks!
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