Oh well, he is coming to my department in i guess a week or so and charging INR 250/- per seat (though I am not sure), I will post back my response, its already too late to say no, and people are too eager to shell out money, but I will make sure a spade is called a spade.
But ofcourse after reading some parts (I didnt had the courage to read the whole) of his FIRST book from my institute library I alread have this notion (for around an year), he is or was an ankle biter and is trying to create more ankle biters but no real hackers/ crackers.
BTW here are the actual links of amazon reviews about fadia books If mailman is kind enough not to trim the links
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1931841721/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1592000452/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_...
Better than the books I guess
:-)
Sincerely
Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in --------------------------------
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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.
Very well written. You only reaffirmed what we have believed ever since this Ankit Fadia hype was created. I guess it's time we started educating people about these ``quacks''. All his achievements and claims to fame are just plain lies and he has no way to prove them otherwise. He has earned a shit-load of money selling his heavily plagiarised books and now is studying some course in Stanford. It's actually not so easy to disprove the myths associated with him ... the best we can do is to ignore him. We have a lot more ``real hacking'' to do than even think about script kiddies like Fadia. Just ignore him ... the world will realise. Soon. Regards, BG
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On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:12 +0530, Ajay Pal Singh Atwal wrote:
Oh well, he is coming to my department in i guess a week or so and charging INR 250/- per seat (though I am not sure), I will post back my response, its already too late to say no, and people are too eager to shell out money, but I will make sure a spade is called a spade.
But ofcourse after reading some parts (I didnt had the courage to read the whole) of his FIRST book from my institute library I alread have this notion (for around an year), he is or was an ankle biter and is trying to create more ankle biters but no real hackers/ crackers.
BTW here are the actual links of amazon reviews about fadia books If mailman is kind enough not to trim the links
The good thing to do is ask him questions in public. Ones that really test his knowledge about security, cryptography and specific vulnerabilities due to configuration errors; and let the audience decide whether or not he is a dunce.
There is nothing bad in this. Everyone needs a reality-check once in a while. When he fails remind him he is still a script kiddie.
Regards,
ah
Ajay Pal Singh Atwal ajaypal@bbsbec.org writes:
Oh well, he is coming to my department in i guess a week or so and charging INR 250/- per seat (though I am not sure), I will
oh my gawd. Heh., not only is he dumb., he is making quite a good business out of it too..
post back my response, its already too late to say no, and people are too eager to shell out money, but I will make sure a spade is called a spade.
Pound him with questions.
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