Is he hacking her cause of romantic interests?
Is he hacking her for the thrill?
Is he hacking her to be able to write the article?
Is he hacking her to show her that he can?, or to show her that it is possible, or to show her the world she is living in?
Why would he ask that? It is strange.
It is also strange how he tries to trivialize what he is doing. From his perspective it is trivial, but for some people it will not be trivial, why would he write an article about something that he believes is generically trivial. Another alternative is that he does not understand that it might not be trivial to some people.
I did read the article... just quoting is probably not going to answer my question.
To make a blog post about it.
His blog title is The hacker known as "Alex" and his previous articles are similar to this one.
See a discussion about one of his previous articles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11130688
The author got permissions of the target.