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by rithdmc 42 days ago
The original article is a list of ways to achieve certain features (ie, reading a file) when you don't have it natively (ie, no cat, but for some reason, base64).

> execute any binary it has read access to

Maybe I'm missing something, but in these restricted environments, why would the system have read access to binaries it doesn't need or use?