Maintainability is inverse correlated to job security anyway

Ackchyually, value watching in debugger almost guarantee to get the value by address, but printf in some languages can pass by value, unnecessarily make copy of the watched variable, and the value printed is the copied data instead of the original

They used Arch forum. The reason it took a while because someone just left a link to a long wiki without any comment on where exactly to look at

In my opinion, it’s bad either way for different reasons

If they do tell the difference, then there is some tracking built into the machine that runs the engine, which is bad for the application user

If they don’t tell the difference, then there will be exploits for intentionally reinstall multiple times, which is bad for the application developers