| ▲ | rovr138 2 days ago |
| Or they had an idea, needed devices to test and be able to destroy if they fucked up. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| He probably owned a device capable or running a virtual machine which would be much more convenient to deal with. Also this idea of "but what if I'll need this in the future", is a common theme among horders. |
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| ▲ | Liftyee a day ago | parent | next [-] | | If hackers always chose the convenient option, that wouldn't make for very challenging or interesting projects ;) There are probably thousands of regular VPS webservers out there. | |
| ▲ | rovr138 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | If you have to modify the hardware. Checking pins, testing things, soldering… you might want to have backups. |
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