[Fsf-friends] Ankit Fadia : The real picture

[Manilal K M]

Prabhat Sandheliya,

    Interesting. Thanks for revealing the truth. The media people are
also ignorant of hacking and unfortunately most of them refer
_crackers_ as _hackers_. This is really a bad thing.

regards
Manilal

On 05/04/06, Prabhat Sandheliya <prabhat.news at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Yesterday (03-04-2006)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 his
> work. But what I could find was self acclaiming statement by Fadia about
> himself and his future and just crap, crap and crap by technology illiterate
> Indian news papers' reports.
>
> I 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 !!!
>
>
> I 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 Microsoft
> 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"
> ???
>
> I 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 !!!
>
>
> Prabhat.
>
> PS : I am sending this mail to Mr Fadia, Reliance web world, most of Linux
> mailing lists and all of my friends. Please post your comments at
> lug-indore at googlegroups.com
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