Software Update SnoopGod

SnoopGod delivers an Ubuntu-based pentesting distribution with an emphasis on security education.

- Bruce Byfield

From Parrot to Kali to Qubes OS and Tails, Linux has no shortage of security-focused distributions. SnoopGod, however, takes a different approach. A team of four led by founder Nicolas Chabrilliat, SnoopGod aims not only to provide a secure distribution with some 800 tools and an accessible desktop environment, but to create a community to promote security awareness and knowledge. In the following exchange, Chabrilliat talks about these goals and how SnoopGod plans to implement them.

Linux Magazine (LM): How did SnoopGod originate?

Nicolas Chabrilliat (NC): Working and having developed my company in the field of cybersecurity, I was looking for a friendly interface for my team and me

that diverged a bit from the usual logic that if we are in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, or bug bounty, we must necessarily use Kali! Is there a reason for this? I would say that my distrust lies in the fact that a friend taught me a long time ago that when something is offered for free, it means that you are the product.

Being avid fans of Ubuntu, we then searched for a distribution oriented towards ethical hacking and based on Ubuntu. At the time, a project caught our attention. This project, BlackBuntu, had been created in 2011. However, the project was abandoned by its initial creator a few years later. In 2018, we decided to revive BlackBuntu with a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and specifically oriented towards cybersecurity and ethical hacking. We acquired the domain name blackbuntu. org, developed and launched the project, and, for almost four years, we kept it alive by releasing BlackBuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04. But we encountered a problem. Although we owned the domain name blackbuntu. org, another person, still unknown to this day, acquired the domain name blackbuntu. com and cloned the project, taking credit for the development we did.