Yeah this feels like more of a cautionary tale about proper privilege and directory management. Was there really a reason for OP to be inside the binary direct

Yeah this feels like more of a cautionary tale about proper privilege and directory management. Was there really a reason for OP to be inside the binary directory for the application in order to use it? Why was the binary writeable in the first place? If the binary was not normally writeable but the user was privileged, was it necessary to use a privileged user for this operation? You could probably create a pretty extensive list of failures that led to this issue. I think the author honed in on the one that made the most sense to himself and missed the forest for the tree.