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by koala_man 739 days ago
Back in the day I ran Bochs in all its 4 Bogomips glory on a university IP address and went to IRC channels where script kiddies were "trading root".

I let them go first, and watched through an instrumented terminal how they clumsily installed a rootkit, then inevitably refused to give anything in return and laughed calling me a noob.

Their laughter was short lived.

I had even spent quite a bit of effort kludging the kernel to report much higher specs than Bochs could deliver, but all that effort was wasted because no one knew how to check.