"Living off the land" is to accomplish tasks from the environment in which you find yourself, minimizing any use of external things. You've crash landed in a f

"Living off the land" is to accomplish tasks from the environment in which you find yourself, minimizing any use of external things. You've crash landed in a forest with a hatchet. How do you survive without a phone and just the clothes on your back? You're on an unfamiliar machine. What can you do without reaching out to download convenient tools? In both instances, creativity is needed to live off the land. There are constraints that prevent solutions expedient in time or space. So you may need to expend both to achieve the same end: writing scripts to bootstrap up, and leveraging vulnerabilities to accomplish workarounds.