This post was first written in March 2024, but at the time, I was asked not to publish it for reasons that will shortly become apparent. Circumstances have changed since, so I've gone ahead and published it now with some minor alterations. For the assignments in my security module this semester, we've been given a barebones virtual machine that we install updates into and complete assignments on. When each new assignment is released, we get given a file to download and run with this preinstalled...