30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
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Maybe a less abstract question is: "how effectively could you debug if the target environment (and the only place the bug occurs) is locked down, no changes possible?"
I've been there more than once, for different reasons (strict government policies, immutable embedded systems, avoiding leaving a footprint on the target..), and 'living off the land' as it has been called probably slows me down to 50% of fully equipped, unless there are zero available tools to help (like gdb or vim), then it's pretty much game over.
Maybe a less abstract question is: "how effectively could you debug if the target environment (and the only place the bug occurs) is locked down, no changes possible?"
I've been there more than once, for different reasons (strict government policies, immutable embedded systems, avoiding leaving a footprint on the target..), and 'living off the land' as it has been called probably slows me down to 50% of fully equipped, unless there are zero available tools to help (like gdb or vim), then it's pretty much game over.
That's definitely closer to what I'm getting at, thanks!