"I want it to be a good tool that I can be proud of" - Interview with Daniel Araujo, creator of Proctal

Hello everyone!

We had a chance to talk with Daniel Araujo, creator of Proctal. His github project is the one that caught our interest and with this interview we would like to present it to you! Daniel had told us all about his amazing tool, how it works and how github community influence his project. Don't miss it!

[Hakin9 Magazine]: Hello Daniel! Thank you for agreeing to do the interview, we are honored! How have you been doing? Can you tell us something about yourself?

[Daniel Araujo]: Thank you, I’m grateful to have this opportunity as well. I’m a programmer and to me it’s a job and a hobby. I’ve learned to write programs on my own with a broad range of programming languages and on different environments; from defining pretty colors on a website to diving deep in some program’s disassembly. I have been working on a tool that allows me to tinker with programs on Linux and it has recently gotten some attention. It’s called Proctal.

[H9]: When I checked your github page, I immediately got interested in Proctal. Can you present it to our....

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