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The craziest command line I've run to date

Here is a lovely but slightly redacted image: There's a lot going on here, so let me explain. First off, the Command Prompt is no ordinary Command Prompt. See the title bar of the window? 'cmd.exe' is running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, the most powerful user account in Windows, on my desktop as a child process of a non-elevated process via the assistance of a temporary NT System Service. A procedure that had never been done before May of 2021. I recommend reading this post (and watching the really cool video I made about it) if you haven't already done so. In short, we're already in completely uncharted territory on Windows. Since the parent process is running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, it is one step away from being able to create security tokens for other users without the user's credentials (i.e. without the user's password, biometrics, etc). The above command creates an elevated token for a user in the Administrators group from scratch, routes st