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.
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.