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I really hate when people say you can't do something. It usually boils down to a lack of imagination on the part of the author.

* Hook document.onmousemove and track the number and location of movement events. If the mouse suddenly jumps around, you most likely have a touch event.

* Check the value of navigator.msMaxTouchPoints

* Pop a 0day on the client to get remote code execution, interrogate the devices attached to the USB bus looking for touch controllers.

etc.



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