Red Pill, Blue Pill, No Pill

You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

This iconic line from the movie The Matrix was the inspiration for this portion of the chapter where we’ll discuss red pills, blue pills, no pills, and other concepts. The purpose is to help an investigator understand a bit more about the inner workings of virtualization technology and how it might be possible to exploit it.