Assume that the shellcode is conscious (although in practice this isn't so). What would you feel if you were to carry out the same tasks as the shellcode and under the same conditions? Assume that you are a saboteur , a member of a landing party, and that you have landed somewhere on hostile territory in the darkness . Where are you? Where have you landed? Reconnaissance on the field where action is planned to obtain information about your adversary, his firing points, specific features of the ground, and so on, will be your main goal. Note that it is up to you not to land in some swamp where you'd drown.