I. Invocation
The manual’s final line reads: “The network is not a machine. The network is a medium. And you are the noise, the signal, and the filter. Exit with ‘:q!’ only if you are willing to forget what you have seen.” Thus pktool v2.0 — not a tool for packets, but a lens for the self that watches packets. Upgrade carefully. pktool v2.0
If you answer no, it prints:
But the packet was unreadable. A scream without a throat. And you are the noise, the signal, and the filter
pktool v2.0 ships with a --consent flag. It is not optional. The tool asks, before every capture: “Do you consent to seeing what is actually there — including the parts of the network that resemble your own forgetfulness, your own collisions, your own dropped windows?” If you answer no, it prints: But the packet was unreadable