Comment on Zero Chull

rothaine@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You buy a cheap phone. No need to pay for license, setup anything except a vpn maybe and you are good to go.

  Setting up lots of VM takes a decent computer, some licenses and a know how.

  A phone, you just start it and it connects to a VPN and your good to go.

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What license would be required? I just use qemu.

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can always improve an operation with more complex tech and more money. At the lower levels, you can just smash a car window and grab the valuables. This is likely a basic startup. It works, makes money. Scope increase comes later.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      VMWare is popular for a reason. qemu is less accessible for the non-tech people of this world.

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      • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Compared to the last VMware GUI I saw qemu GUIs I tried seemed more accessible but for scripting the CLI is better anyways. Maybe VMware simplified it since I last saw it? I thought VMware was mostly popular for ESXi servers which qemu isn’t really comparable to, proxmox is the open equivalent I’m aware of.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But when that tech is set up… You can spin up loads of “phones”.

    I wonder if you need a sim card for each ?

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s to fool any detection that look for VM

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good luck running iOS that way

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  • onnekas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Does it need to be iOS? Can’t they use Android?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For some purposes, I’m sure they do. But I dunno if that’s what’s going on here.

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• MinFapper@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are a lot of programs that try to detect VMs and other unverified environments (e.g. Google’s safety net) to deter bots and fraud.

  Buying physical devices circumvents all that

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