Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 52
What you decribe is standard procedure in the data recovery business, not in the exact opposite.
And how long before Poettering notices and ports systemd to Windows?
He probably anticipated it years ago and already has a release-grade(*) windows port of systemd sitting around in his repo.
(*) i.e. kinda sorta works on his platform, for his use case, with pre-sanitized input, unless bad luck.
(remember, a 40mph crash has 4 times more energy involved than a 30mph crash).
Eh, what?
The universe does not need to stop us, because from the inside of it you can never prove you have the faintest idea of the way it is implemented, even if you got to model and understand every single particle and every single interaction. Does an insulated VM run on intel or on powerpc or on a commodore 64 with a hell of a RAM expansion? no way to know from the inside of it.
Pretty sure that with a bit of timing measurement, you could tell apart a C64 from recent Intel. Identifying other, more subtle details of the host might be more difficult, but not impossible.
You're right in that there's no way to actually prove anything about it.
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.