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Talk on GNU/Hurd internals
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hi, GNU Hurd hacker Annad Babu will be presenting a talk on Hurd/Mach internals. When: Monday 10AM-1PM (May 1st) where: Computer Science & Automation Dept., Indian Institue of Science[, Malleswaram, Bangalore]. Links: * GNU Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ * Debain GNU/Hurd http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd * Qemu image http://www.zabor.org/balrog/hurd/ * Indian GNU/Hurd User Group http://i-hug.sarovar.org/ IRC: * on FreeNode #hurd, #hug, #i-hug, #hurd.in Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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[offtopic] GNU/Linux training faculty needed at Kochi.
by Vimal Joseph 04 May '06

04 May '06

Hello, If you have an aptitude in teaching and some experience in GNU/Linux (Debian preferred) please mail me. Candidates should either BTech or MCA. Knowledge in malayalam is essential. ~vimal <vimal(a)space-kerala.org>

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Monopoly fights for survival
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 03 May '06

03 May '06

----- Original Message ----- From: doxa(a)sancharnet.in To: fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in Sent: à¨¬à©à©±à¨§à¨µà¨¾à¨° 03 à¨®à¨ 2006 10:19:15 à¨¸5à©à¨°à© IST Subject: [Fsf-friends] Monopoly fights for survival "...Microsoft has been paying the large domain resellers to move their "parked" sites to IIS on Microsoft Server. Moving the parked customers of a single large reseller, GoDaddy.com, caused a shift of 4.5 Million domain names, or 5% of total server share from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the Netcraft report. This is an "appearance" change only, because the sites involved have no content. But managers believe figures like those in the Netcraft report, and act on them. It's time for the Free Software / Open Source community to fight back...." Full story at http://opensourceparking.com/ Just moved my parked domains to opensourceparking.com, thanks for the info. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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Fwd: Ankit Fadia -- my childhood hero!
by Prabhat Sandheliya 03 May '06

03 May '06

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Prabhat Sandheliya <prabhat.news(a)gmail.com> Date: May 3, 2006 10:34 AM Subject: Fwd: Ankit Fadia -- my childhood hero! To: lug-indore(a)googlegroupes.com Hey guys, Her is the latest news in Ankit Fadia Case. I would Like you all to introduce Mahesh Aravind. He has written, such a wonderful and though provoking mail. Thanks man ! Prabhat. Here is the original message by him : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mahesh Aravind <ra_mahesh(a)yahoo.com> Date: May 2, 2006 4:38 PM Subject: Ankit Fadia -- my childhood hero! To: prabhat.news(a)gmail.com Prabhat, > 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. I read your mail (re: Ankit Fadia's fraudulent certificate), forwarded to ilug-cochin mailing list. It was excellent. Other than that, I can't find words to describe it. These were the "revelations" I had in the recent few years. I thought I was the only one who didn't accept Fadia as a "hacker", knocking him off discussions as just a wannabe kid backed by a loooot of media hype. Cracked Osama's message, huh? I'm not a hacker, just a wannabe. I'm a laaazy wannabe that 3-4 years ago I set out myself and went to get a `Hacking Book', instead of D-I-Y learning. What caught my eye (due to then recent media hype) was _Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking_, written by India's "young(est) hacker whiz kid" -- Ankit Fadia. I thought: Cool, this kid is only 16 (read: younger than me!) and he wrote a (I don't feel the same today) top-notch chapter on TCP/IP, a subject, whose core is still an uncrackable nut to many network professionals. Wow, *he* is something! At this moment I like to explain that, I hadn't reached enlightenment (or sought "nirvana") and was still stuck with (how horrible those days) Windoze. Cracking windows security, musta been something of weight. Oh, manipulating the registry(!!!), woohoo! Can be a `real hacker' among my school mates..., yipee! And at those times, I hadn't realised that a real hacker just doesn't show off! Months later, a lot(!) learned (from other "real" books), I stumbled upon [blacksun.box.sk] -- the so-called Black Sun Research Facility. Going through their archives, I was astonished to see that many articles were a copy of the chapters from the book, I paid Rs 385/- to buy. But then I was forced to think the other way: all these articles (or "philes") had some or other cracker `handle' as the author. Hey, how can these foreign (at then mostly Israeli) hackers get an Indian book's extract? These "philes" were word-to-word match with the Fadia's book. Then I came to know the Fadia's (then) website [hackingtruths.box.sk] was hosted in the same domain. Bingo! This kid is a fraud! I shoulda known it when I saw non-English comments to some of the so-called virus(!!) asm source code fragments. Somewhere (I don't recall where), I also read that Fadia was thrown out of BSRF for copy-pasting their articles, and not attributing the relevant credit to their authors. I think, nowadays articles at BSRF bears Fadia's name as the author. Not sure, cause nowadays I don't like (or want) to go to script-kiddie sites. > 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". Quite right. I think we need conduct more campaigns to restore the `media defaced' image of the `sacred word'. And, I think there's also a course called CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker); which looks like an internationally acclaimed course [ www.gocertify.com/article/ceh.shtml]. What do you think of it? Please let me know. > 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". This is what showed me the path, got me into "it"... and _our_ history revealed to me by ESR's Jaron File. I've read (tried to, at least) *all* his articles/essays. From _Halloween docs_ to _Sex Tips For Geeks_. I owe him much more than one! > 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. I particularly like this -- RMS *IS* GOD! (Please check the spelling: RMS is Richard Matthew Stallman) But these s/w could have been better captioned as GCC (compiler _suit_), GNU Emacs (Integrated <substitute-what-*ever*-you-want> environment). I for one breaths, eats and sleeps inside Emacs. This very mail was composed in it. Of late, I've been plotting to put `/usr/bin/emacs' as my shell in /etc/passwd! > The things Fadia demonstrated were ancient techniques used by crackers > to break into some one's machine. In the book too, mostly he gives us a list of common, default passwords and asks us to try our luck. > 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 ?? Did he mention all this? I wonder from what site he learns all these "theories"? One particular book I liked very much is _Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box_, by Syngress Publications. It describes real hacking/cracking techniques, in fictional stories, using `bare' hands and crazy, creative ideas. I'll say its a must-read for anyone into computer security career. Any pointers for a freely-downloadable _The Cuckoo's Nest_? > 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 !!! Great! What an attitude? Something like Micro$oft's `Embrace and Extend' policy: What yours is mine, and what mine is mine! > Second most annoying thing was that he calls himself a "hacker" and > was using a Windows XP operating system ???? A Windoze hacker, huh? Windows is not even an operating system; its an Un-Operating System! To quote _Unoffical Guide to Ethical Hacking_: There is a common belief that Windows is very insecure, but then Red Hat too is not so great in the security sphere. There are nearly 50 known ways to get root on a Linux box. The reason why hackers have found so many more holes or bugs in Windows is due to the fact that it is the most widely used OS in the world and the largest number of hackers have a go at Windows Security. The only thing that is in support if Linux is that fact that it is free and spreads the concept of open source and well, performance. However, while Linux's performance is better, I do not agree to what people say about the low Windows security. So, I think there is nothing wrong in using a Windows box for hacking. What can you say to this? Some people *never* learn! > Any confirmation of him decrypting Osama's message = 0 > (Hahahahahahahaha) Does Osama use Windows? > 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. Recently a book was released by him on _Email Hacking_. Not surprisingly, many of my friends' Yahoo! a/c started disappearing, some lost their mails, others got Mailer Daemon failures for mails that they never sent but bears their email id in the `From:' column, etc. Some even accused *me* for `hacking' their a/c's (honestly, I didn't, I never wanted to, and I don't know how to do it). Any news like this in your locality? Maybe we can sue him for promoting and encouraging criminal activities. > Oh God ! this is the clear violation of intellectual property rights > of the website. Please inform the webmaster. I have done it already. You being a fan of RMS, please don't use the term <quote>intellectual property</quote>. There is no such thing! Do visit [www.gnu.org/words-to-avoid.html]. Thoughts and ideas can't be owned and copyrighted (or patented for the matter). > I was astonished by the course he came to promote here, "Ethical > hacker certified by Ankit Fadia" ! "Ethical MESS-DOS(r) Hacker certified by Ankit Fadia". Sounds cool! I wonder what language does he work on? Microsoft Visual COBOL? > Unfortunately, question and answer round was cut from the seminar, Or he will have to *answer* some of those. How can he, when he follows some of them step-by-step from various "underground" sites? > 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 ??? Shame? Not for him, of course. Obviously, he finds "Linux" too hard for him to contain and operate, let alone "hack"! > 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" ??? Or people who are MCSEs? (MCSE: Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert) > And for god sake, stop behaving like a child, now you are in college, > so GROW UP !!! Just out of curiosity, what course does he pursue? Anyway, its good to know that *some* action is going out there to "shed light on" this incident. I fully appreciate it, and like you asked, I'll warn my friends about it. How can I cooperate? First of all, I think I'll subscribe to your mailing list. Best of Luck and Happy Hacking! Regards, Mahesh Aravind ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Prabhat Sandheliya --------------------------------------------------------------------- Promote Linux - Join mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/lug-indore (Linux Users Group - Indore)

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Monopoly fights for survival
by doxa＠sancharnet.in 03 May '06

03 May '06

"...Microsoft has been paying the large domain resellers to move their "parked" sites to IIS on Microsoft Server. Moving the parked customers of a single large reseller, GoDaddy.com, caused a shift of 4.5 Million domain names, or 5% of total server share from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the Netcraft report. This is an "appearance" change only, because the sites involved have no content. But managers believe figures like those in the Netcraft report, and act on them. It's time for the Free Software / Open Source community to fight back...." Full story at http://opensourceparking.com/

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Free Software alternative to skype
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi, Checkout this. They have a Firefox extention as well. http://openwengo.com/ Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Linux: A European threat to our computers (by Tristan)
by प्रव ीण् ए (Praveen A) 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

<http://shuddery.blogspot.com/> Hi, Can this not be a joke? Linux: A European threat to our computers (by Tristan) http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006/04/linux-european-threat-to-our-comput… Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr

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Since we were talking about hacking/cracking
by malovika roy 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi guys, I would like to bring to your notice one site thats just been hacked, http://knowgenesis.org/forums/ One of my close friends (who writes on Open source related topics) is a moderator for this forum which is an online knowledge community. Pls see the mail below and if anyone of you can do something about this then please do. the responsibility is claimed by some Turkish hackers. Malovika. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janani Gopalakrishnan <gjanani(a)gmail.com> Date: Apr 27, 2006 11:11 AM Subject: Since we were talking about cracking... Hi, Imagine my surprise when I visited it this morning. The site was wiped out clean, and there was just a banner by 2 Turkish hackers claiming responsibility for the deed. Check out http://knowgenesis.org/forums/ (do please check it out today because I think the admins will start recovery by afternoon -- or so I hope!) It's really outrageous. The impact sinks in only when we face the brunt. It was not even a commercial site -- just an online community (based on OS philosophies -- even their Journal is licensed under CC) for knowledge sharing! I wonder what thrill they gain out of this! I have lost around 2 months worth of posts by members because of this! And we were having such wonderful interactions. Janani -- ----------------------------------------------------------- "Things work out best for the people who make the best out of the way things work out."

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Since we were talking about hacking/cracking
by admin＠itmission.org 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi, Just upgrade the forum if phpbb to the latest version, or search the database for that forum, to find any entries by the hack, do take rsync of your database further if you have shell access ... let me know if you need any help.. :) Thanks, -- Shibu C Varughese http://itmission.org ------------------------------------------------- --- malovika roy <malovika(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I would like to bring to your notice one site thats > just been hacked, > http://knowgenesis.org/forums/ > One of my close friends (who writes on Open source > related topics) is a > moderator for this forum which is an online > knowledge community. Pls see the > mail below and if anyone of you can do something > about this then please do. > the responsibility is claimed by some Turkish > hackers. > > Malovika. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Janani Gopalakrishnan <gjanani(a)gmail.com> > Date: Apr 27, 2006 11:11 AM > Subject: Since we were talking about cracking... > > > Hi, > > Imagine my surprise when I visited it this morning. > The site was wiped out > clean, and there was just a banner by 2 Turkish > hackers claiming > responsibility for the deed. > > Check out http://knowgenesis.org/forums/ (do please > check it out today > because I think the admins will start recovery by > afternoon -- or so I > hope!) > > It's really outrageous. The impact sinks in only > when we face the brunt. It > was not even a commercial site -- just an online > community (based on OS > philosophies -- even their Journal is licensed under > CC) for knowledge > sharing! I wonder what thrill they gain out of this! > > I have lost around 2 months worth of posts by > members because of this! And > we were having such wonderful interactions. > > Janani > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > "Things work out best for the people who make the > best out > of the way things work out." > _______________________________________________ > Fsf-friends mailing list > Fsf-friends(a)mm.gnu.org.in > http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends >

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[Fwd: Would you like to mentor a student paid to contribute to your package?]
by Nagarjuna 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Would you like to mentor a student paid to contribute to your package? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:56:31 -0400 From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org> To: gnu-prog(a)gnu.org The GNU Project is participating in Google's Summer of Code program. (See http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html for details.) In summary: * Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to work on development of free software. * The FSF will be paid $500 per project, too. * We need people to volunteer to mentor these students, and also people to evaluate other ideas that students may suggest. * Payment to the student is contingent upon feedback by the mentor. * There is no requirement that the finished code be included in the package itself, but goal is to get code we want to use. * For FSF-copyrighted GNU packages, we will ask the student to sign the usual copyright assignment before getting paid, to make sure there will be no legal obstacle to using his code. If you are willing to mentor one or more projects, this could be of great use to the GNU Project -- it would introduce new volunteers to your package's code base, get a little funds for the FSF, and enhance the GNU operating system. Before you volunteer to be a mentor, please make sure you can actually spare the time to do the work; having mentors become unresponsive or drop out would be very bad. It is important for projects to be feasible for a good student-level hacker to do in 2 or 3 months; nothing super large. It is ok if you talk with student candidates that you already know are capable, to plan projects with them. That is a good way to produce projects that are really likely to get done, and done well. To volunteer as a mentor, please send email to <summer-of-code(a)gnu.org>. Please describe the student projects you offer to mentor, and for each one, say which GNU package it will enhance. We need to find a "backup mentor" for each project; the backup mentor is someone who will take over in case you become busy, sick, or otherwise unavailable. If you can think of any obvious suggestions for backup mentors for your projects, please mention the suggestions in your mail. (We consider these suggestions are tentative, so you can mention them first, then ask them if they are available.) But if you can't think of anyone, please suggest your project anyway. We will look for a suitable backup mentor. James Youngman <jay(a)gnu.org> will be taking care of accumulating the offers and putting them in our web site, but he could use one or two people to help. If you are willing to help, please write to <summer-of-code(a)gnu.org>. _______________________________________________ GNU Maintainers Announcement List gnu-prog(a)gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog . -- -- Dr. Nagarjuna G. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mumbai India. V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd, Mumbai, INDIA 400088 http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/Data/Objects/n/nagarjun/viewObject

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