[Roberto] recently discovered a clever way to gain root access to an HP t520 thin client computer ... the context of whichever user the original software is running as. The next step is to ...

Either a dedicated thin client terminal or a regular PC with thin client software is used to send keyboard and mouse input to the server and receive screen output in return. The thin client does ...

That’s apparently what was on [Crimson Repair]’s mind lately, the result being the discovery that an old thin client PC makes a dandy stand-in for a Raspberry Pi, at least in some cases.