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Re:Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russ... by znpy on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:52AM (#44583654)
> it really depends on the scenario

yeah and that scenario was clear:

> Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server.

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Re:Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russ... by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:57AM (#44583725)
"hardware" does not mean "bare metal". It could be a MAC, a serial number or similar things that may be linked to a generic or clonable value in virtualization.
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Re:Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russ... by znpy on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:15AM (#44591630)
but docker isn't virtualization, you understand this, right ?
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Re:Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russ... by BrandoElFollito on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:47AM (#44592246)
To some extent, yes -- having developed apps that were dockerized, and having managed virtualization systems (ESXi and similar), as well as docker engines.

I am not sure I see your point, though.

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