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Moritz Negwer

@SafeguardingResearch Holy cow, this blew up. Thanks for your attention, lovely people of the fediverse.

If you want to reproduce what I did, here's a rough guide:

1) Grab an old PC / Laptop / Raspberry pi, whatever you have lying around. If it has a network connection and some storage, it's probably fine.

2) Install Linux on it. Ubuntu is fine most of the time. I used Ubuntu server following this guide: ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-u

UbuntuInstall Ubuntu Server | UbuntuUbuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.