Or they had an idea, needed devices to test and be able to destroy if they fucked up.
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.
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.
If you have to modify the hardware. Checking pins, testing things, soldering… you might want to have backups.
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.
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.
If you have to modify the hardware. Checking pins, testing things, soldering… you might want to have backups.