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I think you’re thinking that the fingerprint is reported as a single hash (e.g. SHA512) of multiple attributes, which would of course change if a single bit was different. But there’s no reason they would be reported that way. It could be (and probably more likely) a big data structure of all the values. It would be easy to see that only a few things changed.





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