[antocv]

Why is he root on his own machine when he uses unzip?

I hope this is satire. "The unzip tool uses a sophisticated algorithm based on LZ77 and Huffman coding". Oh wow. Who would have thought. " These files do not represent the socio-economic status of the code." Oh.

Lame humor.

[ssafejava]

Obviously he's just joking, and most of the people in this thread got it. He's not incompetent, he wrote both Armitage and Cobalt Strike, and the latter has some really incredible features that are hard to find elsewhere. I'd say he knows his way around a computer.

Snarking about why he's root when he runs unzip does not advance the discussion and despite your efforts, it does not make you look smarter than him.

[antocv]

It is just too lame humor, I wasnt criticizing or questioning the smarts of the author.

If anything, Im critizing his writing style, the blog article is not fun to read as it comes from a presumptions and arrogant/entitled position.

Or maybe its just me I dont see anything funny in that article, I just dont find the poking at virtual Linux users and people interested in cracking from a position of authority funny.

Effectively the entire article is making fun of hackers, people who are curious how to break software and make it do unspecified things, people who dare poke and dare crack. But its his software, so it is ok for him to make fun of others right?

The cracking culture is many peoples first step into hacking and programming, we wouldnt be here if all of us really payed for the stuff we used as kids.

[ohashi]

He's walking through how to crack his own software and you are complaining that he is anti cracking culture? If this is your attempt at humor, it's really failing.

[raffi]

I'll answer to unzip. In the post, I'm using a Linux distribution called Kali Linux. Kali is the successor to BackTrack Linux. Most people who use my software, use it with Kali Linux.

Kali is a distribution with a focus on offensive security. Most tools require root to run. It's very rare to find a Kali user who uses sudo and works from a non-root account. root for all actions is normal.

Some people may use Kali day to day, but it's built to do a job.

http://www.kali.org/

I didn't call out Kali specifically, but all of my screenshots show Kali's default window manager theme. I don't know if my audience earns the "hacker" badge by your standards... but I suspect most of them recognize Kali from a distance.