Ankit Fadia –> Who??

Dis is a small post i found while goin thru my regular visits to a friends Blog Maruti Borker …

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…This was written by Mr.Srinivasan ..(Oneof the membes oF NAG) .. 

 Here is the Post :-

Yesterday (23-04-2006)I attended a seminar by a so-called "Hacking Guru"
Ankit Fadia, at DAVV, Indore (MP) auditorium. I just want to share my
feelings with you.

The Seminar was a complete failure, though it was attended by about well
over 100 people, but was a complete disaster.

The very first thing by which I was offended badly was using the sacred
word "Hacking" to demonstrate something we, the hackers, call cracking.
The seminar topic was "Ethical Hacking", now I want to ask Mr Fadia,
what is unethical about hacking ? Hacking is very positive word and
there in no need to put "Ethical" before it. By the way his seminar
topic should be "Ethical Cracking".

If you really want to become a hacker, please read an article by a real
hacker, Eric Steven Raymond (ESR). The man who changed the history by
writing a paper "Cathedral and Bazaar". please read the article here :
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html <
http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html >

The people who can not differentiate between hacking and cracking,
should read an article by the GOD of hackers Richad M Stallman (RMS),
the man who started GNU movement all by himself. The gcc (compiler), gdb
(debugger), emacs (editor) are some of the most popular softwares in the
world written by him. Please read the article here : 

http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_69.html

The things Fadia demonstrated were ancient techniques used by crackers
to break into some one's machine. Now a days even 10 year olds can
download these tools from Internet to control others' machines. Can we
call them hackers ?? If he calls it hacking, I doubt if he understands
the term even "Cracking", leave hacking altogether. This childish
behavior is called script kiddie.

IP spoofing, SQL Injection, password cracking softwares, Trojan horse
programs, these are the tools of cyber criminals. So I wonder what is
the significance of the term "Ethical" here ??

In the entire session I kept waiting for some program or utility,
written by himself. But I don't thing he had something like this to
share with audience. The entire session was demonstration of third party
utilities, and the saddest thing was no mention of the name of any
author of any utility. He didn't care to give some credits to the
utility developers. What a shame !!!

Mr Fadia, I real hacker always respect the creativity of others, and
before using their work proper credits are given, this is the hacker's
attitude. It's not like that, you download something from Internet, use
it and forget the person, who made it. That's pretty mean.

Second most annoying thing was that he calls himself a "hacker" and was
using a Windows XP operating system ????

I have been in to computers for the past 10 years and I never come
across any real hacker who uses Windows. I met Brian(Apache creator),
Andy Cleen, Alon cox, Rusty (all networking gods), RMS (the GOD himself)
but all of them were using some or other form of Unix or Linux.

Come on, MR Fadia, Windows is the worst OS in the world, full of
security holes, so what is the point to break into a Windows machine
???? What do you want to prove ????

He only once mentioned Linux, just to tell how you can use it's live CD
to boot a Windows machine and cracke the password.

Actually, before attending the seminar, I Googled a lot about Fadia and
just want to share my findings with you.  

Vulnerabilities patches by Fadia = 0 (He may know how to
break in, but doesn't know how to fix up)

Bugtraq id's by Fadia = 0

Hacking / Security tool by fadia = 0 (He simply Goolge and
download the tools from Internet, that's not cracking. Actual cracker
is the
programmer, but Fadia never ever gives due credits. Now that's not
hacking, that's stealing)

Any open source software by Fadia = 0 (He is afraid of suggesting
Linux to people, 'coz it's secure)

Any Linux or Windows software security patch = 0
Any recommendation or recognition by Real Hacker Community = 0
(They laugh at him. He is just a kid)

Software / Cryptography patents by Fadia = 0

Algorithms by Fadia = 0
Any official citation by FBI/CIA/CBI for Fadia = 0 (They don't
even bother about any explanation)

Any confirmation of his self-claims = 0 (Nobody,
expect him knows, if they are real)

Any confirmation of him decrypting Osama's message = 0
(Hahahahahahahaha)

Any original technical tutorial or book by Fadia = 0 (He simply
copy the things and never he never ever gives due credits to the
original authors.)

Any originality in his tutes or books = 0 (Hahahahahahaha)

Skill level of Fadia = Only God
knows !!!

tried to read a few books by him, but to my wonder some part of his
books are nothing but simple "copy and paste" material from well known
sites for Windows registry editing. Please visit www.winguides.com and
compare the material with his first book. Oh God ! this is the clear
violation of intellectual property rights of the website. Please inform
the webmaster. I have done it already.

I was astonished by the course he came to promote here, "Ethical hacker
certified by Ankit Fadia" ! He sill is child in hacking field, and he is
giving the certificates for hacking ????? And worst thing, Reliance web
world is promoting it. What a shame !!! Have all gone mad ? Can't they see?

Unfortunately, question and answer round was cut from the seminar,
that's also because of Fadia arrived there one hour late. Well, that's
India's celebrity style statement. Otherwise, I would have asked all
these questions to him there only.

Anyways, I went to him at the end of the seminar, and asked if Windows
is so vulnerable, can he suggest audience to use Linux rather than
Windows. And the reply came was straight "NO". What a shame ???

I understood the reason, why he said no. The reason is same why
Mic*ft does not patch up it's OS. Plain economics. If you make system
secure with Linux who is going to ask for people like Fadia, so called
"security expert" ???

want to make an appeal to all of you, please make all of your friends
aware of these facts. Let one should not get undeserved advantage. I
also want to appeal news papers, please do not make a hero out of
nothing. Stop polluting the honest media by prejudiced reports.

And at the end I want to tell Mr Fadia, that I don't have any personal
problem with you or your achievements, but please behave properly in
hacking community. We hackers are very positive people we never ever try
to harm anybody, until he comes to our or our philosophy's way. Please
stop calling your self a hacker, if does not understand the hacker culture.

And for god sake, stop behaving like a child, now you are in college, so
GROW UP !!!

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Nice Post by Srinvisan …Just wanted  To Publish it on my Blog ..jus because i have the same feeligns about Ankit Fadia

 SOme of the COmments Highlighted….

1. Turbo Says:
   May 21st, 2006 at 11:04 am Same thing happened here when he came for a talk in IIIT Hyderabad. It was all crap. Though I was more eager to learn about cracking then hacking and his talk was on cracking stuff … but it was all crap. He was showing all old stuff :- simple password crackers, googled trojans, anonymous proxy servers, stenography and bla bla bla. These are all 10 years old. He learned these when he was 12 and I guess he learned nothing afterwards. And yes none of those were his own. I don’t understand how he got the celebrity status. Hope he learns something at MIT. Or has he joined harvard? These two were his options when he came here in hyderabad.
2. Shreesh Says:
   May 24th, 2006 at 8:45 am same thing happened at MIT,Pune last semester…. though not many people realised that the “hacking tricks” told by ankit were really old and did not show much creativity… and guess what…. he even ENLIGHTENED the audience with “SECRET service codes” of the NOKIA handsets like *#0000#,*#92702689# which can be found on any cell phone website…..
3. Sridhar Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 7:48 pm He is just a script kiddie who is hailed by stupid Windows junta(most of them can only use it for minesweeper ).
4. Sandeep Singh Kunwar Says:
   May 26th, 2006 at 8:18 pm Never thought this thing.
   Even though, i only wish to be a hacker and din’t know much things.
   But i was sure that fadia’s first book was just driven by copy, powered by paste.
5. Harshvir Says:
   May 27th, 2006 at 9:29 am Hi i read the article, nice one. I am just commeting because i also have the same views about that kid, about 3-4 yeras ago i bought his book and after reading some pages and recalling the stuff stored in my mind which i studed from the Web, i thought that i have wasted money on that book and after reading 3-4 chapters the reat of pages have never felt the air because i never opened them.
6. Amk Says:
   May 29th, 2006 at 5:36 am Fadia is a total fag!..he calls himself a hacker!..a real hacker will never boast around and ride on a media hype wave..real hackers are silently working in the dark alleys of the internet..their aim is just to prove that..this can be done..many hackers dont break into systems and manipulate data..crackers do that..Fadia is a total script kiddie..he uses tools/scripts/techniques created by others – he jsut educated people about these known techniques..nothing original..if you visit a couple of sites about hacking..even you can start giving lectures on this..I jsut can’t believe this guy..at one of his seminars..he boasted that he could control anybody’s PC..he then demonstrated it on one of our lab pc’s..everyone was astonished..he was using a trojan ..i think BO or SUB7..Man..Then he gave a long lecture about how trojans can cause security threats and how he can formulate a protection stratergy for our lab..give me a break!!..my 12 year old son knows about trojans..this guy is just taking advantage of the ignorant and lesser computer savy people..

   His resume claims that he works for the CBI and even the FBI!!…I just can’t control my laughter here…the FBI!!..afain the FBI!! ..LOl…they come all over from the USA..cos they just can’t find a whiz kid in the USA..they come to India and say “Ohh great and all knowing hacker of all times.Mr Fadia..please help us..please decrupt this email..find the source of this email..get laden for us!”…people like him should stop this nonsense..if you are really a hacker..prove it man.

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I personally hav no hatred towards him… dis post actually reflect my feelings…  yet neva experienced his lec… hop to find some bugss…