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You can directly map most of the tags into a libc function clall combination, like the "Command" tag is just programs that run user input into a system() call. Even for programs where this is their primary function. It has nothing to do with "bypassing".

The author is making a security theater out of nothing for posing.



The point is to get to these functionality from a limited set of shell commands, not to get to this functionality from an arbitrary executable.

> The author is making a security theater out of nothing for posing.

Again, the author is not making accusations of security flaws. I don't know how they could have described it better, but the author was going for something very narrow and specific.




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