An Mail from CSLUG (Pune Univ LUG) Member.
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hi prabhat,
Thanks for taking initiative. let me add some more.
I attended his seminar (7th Apr) yesterday at I2IT,pune . This time
also he didnt get time for questions-answers .In his seminar, he
defined 'hackers' - good people who work with security guy for ethical
purpose and 'crackers' - computer criminals who steals passwords, does
financial harms, etc. Now, his seminar was full of password cracking
tools. he taught there - How to do attacks on site with hiding their
identity. how can we use trojans to harm to remote computer. howto
send forged emails. how can one deface website and how can he order
jewelry for free with love demo.
My claim - Is this comes under ethical hacking or cracking as per your
definition? do public really need to be taught these things to secure
their machines? and why dont you encourage them to use secure browsers
like opera, mozilla? if he says many websites/proprietary softwares
steals users information, why not ask them to move to open source
world? why you do not tell them that most secure way of using internet
is to use net as non-root user in linux box? :-\
people here are talking about ankit fadia like hes the next jesus
because he is young and wrote a book. whats so hard about that? , you
can compile the information from the internet ,rewrite it and throw in
some remarks about this you understand, then make it read nice and you
have a book. he said he wrote his first book in 15 days. my claim - I
could have done same in 2 days. ;-)
if u think he is quite young , then compare him with all those 12-13
years old kids from US who wrote big viruses/worms that caused
billions of dollars damage to US.
he does not talk about stack manipulation, reversing os hooks , kernel
data structures. he does not owe any security research. He just keeps
knowledge abt how hackers hack. Is that make him big hacker? and if he
is so big hacker, why doesnt defcon , blackhat meetings entertain him?
In his doordarshan interview, he told that he is working for many
multinational security companies and can not revel their names for
security reasons. =)) =))
My claim - I am working for a single multinational security company
that is on the top of all your fucking companies and can not revel
their names for the same. :-D
ankit's own opinion abt his book(copy-pasted from
http://neworder.box.sk/forum.php?did=edge317&thread=23811 ;)
I am not at all the youngest hacker in the world and definitely not
even the youngest writer in the world, neither do I have any desire to
become so. The media has been responsible for giving me titles, which
I am no way going to accept. I do not know everything there is to know
about computer security and believe that every single individual
registered at Neworder can definitely teach me a lot.... My first book
is strictly meant for newbies who are starting out in the hacking
scene. It does not talk about much advanced stuff and may not be
useful to seasoned computer security experts.
for more analysis - read all postings
http://neworder.box.sk/forum.php?did=edge317
So... he says his book is for newbies... for those of you whoever
found his book facinating, you are newbie. There is a lot to learn
about hacking.
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